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Book of the Week: Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

Riz Ahmed

Elizabeth Allard

Richard Hamilton

Anjan Sundaram

Book of the Week: Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo: Episode 3: A Journey on the River Congo

Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

Episode 3

Episode 3: A Journey on the River Congo

A Journey on the River Congo

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo, A Journey on the River Congo

A journey along the River Congo leads to new insights for the journalist.

Stringer is Anjan Sundaram's vivid account of self-discovery and danger. In 2005, at the age of 22, the decision to give up a maths Phd to become a journalist takes Sundaram to war torn Congo ahead of the first democratic elections for 40 years. Today, Sundaram leaves the city of Kinshasa behind and travels along the River Congo into the jungle where a chance encounter leaves him unsettled.

Read by Riz Ahmed
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Anjan Sundaram's mesmerising account of self-discovery in war-torn Congo

Anjan Sundaram's mesmerising account of self-discovery in war-torn Congo. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Read by Riz Ahmed

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