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Book of the Week

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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: The Cooked Seed

Chipo Chung

Jane Marshall

Anchee Min

Book of the Week: The Cooked Seed: Episode 4

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The Cooked Seed

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, The Cooked Seed, Episode 4

Can Anchee Min juggle several jobs, her studies and debt while being desperately homesick?

Can Anchee Min juggle several jobs, her studies and debt at the same time as being desperately homesick? Read by Chipo Chung.

Anchee Min juggles several jobs along with her university course, in order not to slip further into debt.

Increasingly isolated and homesick, she longs to see her family. But when she finally goes home for a visit, after three years away, she begins to realise how much she has changed.

Read by Chipo Chung
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC radio 4.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Anchee Min's account of making a new life in America after emigrating from China

Anchee Min's account of making a new life in America after emigrating from China, abridged by Jane Marshall. Read by Chipo Chung

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