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Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies

Jamie Parker

Sascha Arango

Sally Marmion

Justine Willett

Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies: Episode 5: No corpse is beautiful

Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies

Episode 5

Episode 5: No corpse is beautiful

No corpse is beautiful

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, No corpse is beautiful

An unexpected meeting on the drive to the mortuary.

Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the best in contemporary literature with this bestselling German thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which everyone has a secret.

Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream begins to unravel.
Today: An unexpected encounter on the way to the mortuary.
Reader: Jamie Parker
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett
Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge bestseller in Germany.
Translated by Imogen Taylor.

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Sascha Arango's dark thriller set in small-town Germany, where everyone has a secret.

Sascha Arango's dark thriller set in small-town Germany, where everyone has a secret. Abridged by Sally Marmion. Read by Jamie Parker.

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