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The Empire Writes Back

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

During the heyday of the British Empire, the most prized manuscripts were the travel journals of Victorian explorers such as David Livingstone and John Hanning Speke. David Stenhouse explores the rivalry between two Edinburgh publishing families who fought tooth and nail over these authors, only to discover that explorers don't necessarily make the best writers. Producer Elizabeth Clark

Contributors

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David Livingstone
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John Hanning Speke.
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David Stenhouse
Producer:
Elizabeth Clark
Source: Radio Times

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