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Mark Lawson examines how mystery novels reflect a country's history and political system.

Foreign Bodies: Series 2

Foreign Bodies: Series 2: Episode 1: Greece - Inspector Costas Haritos

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Episode 1: Greece - Inspector Costas Haritos

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Greece - Inspector Costas Haritos

BBC Radio 4 - Foreign Bodies, Series 2, Greece - Inspector Costas Haritos

Mark talks to Petros Markaris, whose crime series prophesied the Greek financial crisis.

Mark Lawson, in Athens, talks to crime fiction writers including Petros Markaris, whose detective series prophesied the Greek financial crisis.

To accompany BBC Radio 4's dramatisations of the Martin Beck novels, which established crime fiction as a form for exploring social change, Mark Lawson presents five more 'Foreign Bodies' focusing on Greece, Argentina, Northern Ireland, South Africa and fictional TV crime-scenes including Broadchurch.

Examining subjects including the way in which crime novels have portrayed transitional societies in South Africa and Northern Ireland and explored the legacy of military rule in Argentina, in this first programme Lawson, in Athens, talks to writers including Petros Markaris, whose detective series featuring Inspector Costas Haritos has both predicted and depicted the Greek financial crisis.

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