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

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Foreign Bodies: Series 3: Episode 1: Cuba

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BBC Radio 4 - Foreign Bodies, Series 3, Cuba

Mark Lawson explores fictional investigations of Cuba after the Castro revolution.

Mark Lawson explores fictional investigations of Cuba after the Castro revolution with Leonardo Padura, author of The Havana Quartet, and Caroline Garcia-Aquilera.

To complement Radio 4's major dramatisations of The Havana Quartet by Cuba's leading crime writer, Leonardo Padura, Mark Lawson examines how mystery novels have reflected five different political systems in a new series of Foreign Bodies.

In today's programme Mark Lawson explores fictional investigations of Cuba after the Castro revolution with Leonardo Padura, author of The Havana Quartet, and Caroline Garcia-Aquilera, a Cuban-American writing from exile in Miami.

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Mark Lawson examines how mystery novels have reflected five different political systems.

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