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Book of the Week: Where the Line is Drawn

Peter Polycarpou

Raja Shehadeh

Penny Leicester

Elizabeth Allard

Book of the Week: Where the Line is Drawn: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Where the Line is Drawn

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Where the Line is Drawn, Episode 1

Raja Shehadeh's reflections on a friendship forged across the Israel-Palestine border.

Raja Shehadeh, the award-winning Palestinian writer and lawyer, reflects on a friendship forged over 40 years across the Israel-Palestine border. Read by Peter Polycarpou.

Raja Shehadeh is an award winning Palestinian writer, lawyer, and founder of the human right's organisation, Al Haq. In Where the Line is Drawn he reflects on his forty year friendship with Henry, a Jewish Israeli. As idealistic young men when they first meet in 1977, they connect over shared interests in literature, writing and walking. As the years pass, their friendship is challenged by history, politics, enmity and violence, but it also points the way to a common future. Raja Shehadeh's books include Occupation Diaries; Language of War, Language of Peace and Palestinian Walks which won the 2008 Orwell Prize. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Guardian and Granta.

Read by Peter Polycarpou who was recently nominated for an Olivier Award for best supporting actor in a play category. Other recent theatre credits include the Donmar theatre's production of City of Angels, and Guys and Dolls at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Television credits include Tyrant, Hustle and Eastenders and he has been heard in numerous audio dramas.

The music is Reem Kelani's Sprinting Gazelle.

Abridged by Penny Leicester
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Raja Shehadeh reflects on a 40-year friendship forged across the Israel-Palestine border.

Raja Shehadeh, award-winning Palestinian writer and lawyer, reflects on a friendship forged over 40 years across the Israel-Palestine border. Read by Peter Polycarpou.

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