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Adaptations of five tales by a leading figure of English-language Indian literature

Trail of the Green Blazer

RK Narayan Stories: Trail of the Green Blazer

BBC Radio 4 Extra - RK Narayan Stories, Trail of the Green Blazer

A distinctive jacket seems to beckon a pickpocket over the cacophony of an Indian market.

A distinctive jacket seems to beckon pickpocket Raju over the cacophony of a bustling Indian market. Read by Sam Dastor.

Over the cacophony of a bustling Indian market, pickpocket Raju is drawn to a man wearing a distinctive jacket. 

Taken from RK Narayan’s short story collection ‘Malgudi Day’s, published in 1943.

Read by Sam Dastor. 

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991.

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