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Foreign Bodies: Series 2: Episode 4: South Africa - Detective Captain Bennie Griessel

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Episode 4: South Africa - Detective Captain Bennie Griessel

Series 2

South Africa - Detective Captain Bennie Griessel

BBC Radio 4 - Foreign Bodies, Series 2, South Africa - Detective Captain Bennie Griessel

Mark Lawson talks to Deon Meyer about the criminality in post-apartheid South Africa.

Mark Lawson talks to Deon Meyer about the fact and fiction of criminality in post-apartheid South Africa.

Translated from Afrikaans, the detective novels of Deon Meyer have become international best-sellers. Mark Lawson talks to Meyer about the fact and fiction of criminality in post-apartheid South Africa and meets Sifiso Mzobe, whose award-winning debut book features a young criminal in a Durban township.

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Mark Lawson looks at crime fiction as a form for exploring social change around the world

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