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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: The Dawn Watch

Laurel Lefkow

Maya Jasanoff

Katrin Williams

Duncan Minshull

Book of the Week: The Dawn Watch: Episode 3

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The Dawn Watch

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, The Dawn Watch, Episode 3

Conrad meets Marguerite Poradowski. Then his novel Almayer's Folly starts to gather words.

Conrad meets Marguerite Poradowski. Then his novel Almayer's Folly starts to gather words, as he undertakes a journey through the Congo Free State to Leopoldville.

The story of Joseph Conrad, abridged in five parts by Katrin Williams. He was the author of Heart Of Darkness, Lord Jim, and sailed the seas..

3. He meets Marguerite Poradowski and emotional letters follow - for years. Then his trek through the Congo to secure a posting is nightmarish, but the experience will later fuel his fiction.

Reader Laurel Lefkow

Producer Duncan Minshull.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

By Maya Jasanoff. The story of author Joseph Conrad, abridged by Katrin Williams.

By Maya Jasanoff. The story of author Joseph Conrad, abridged in five parts by Katrin Williams. Read by Laurel Lefkow.

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