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Book of the Week: Pico Iyer - The Man within My Head

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The Man within My Head

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Pico Iyer - The Man within My Head

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In Bogota, Pico Iyer first reveals how his travels are shaped by writer Graham Greene.

4 Extra Debut. Pico Iyer describes how his global wanderings are shaped by his fascination with writer Graham Greene. Read by Paul Bazely.

"The high, thin light was turning the shacks and shanties on the hills to gold as I put my thoughts of Graham Greene behind me."

The travel writer Pico Iyer (author of Video Nights in Kathmandu, Falling Off The Map) has always wandered the world with a mentor 'looking on'. Whether it be Bogota, Cuba, California, Japan, the man inside Iyer's head, as he puts it, is always Graham Greene. And it is Greene's fights with faith, his reservations about innocence, his generous spirit, that are really inspiring. In the course of five episodes and from various destinations the author describes his fascination for the great man..

Pico Iyer is in Bogota where he first tells us that his mentor whilst wandering the globe is Graham Greene. Abridged in five parts by Katrin Williams and read by Paul Basely

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Pico Iyer describes his fascination with author Graham Greene. Read by Paul Bazely

Travel writer Pico Iyer describes his fascination with author Graham Greene. Read by Paul Bazely

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