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4. Johannesburg

You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr

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1976, Johannesburg: times are changing fast.

1976, Johannesburg: times are changing fast. 100 years of South Africa's troubled past and present. Read by Tracy Ann Oberman.

Johannesburg, 1976, and Rayna Brandt is making her way as a single mother in South Africa, still under Apartheid. 

But life for white and black South Africans is changing fast.

Damian Barr's blistering debut novel, spanning 100 years of South Africa's dark past and present. 

Read by Tracy Ann Oberman. 


Abridged by Richard Hamilton.

Producer:  Justine Willett 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.

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Damian Barr's searing novel spanning 100 years of South Africa's dark past and present.

Tracy Ann Oberman reads Damian Barr's searing debut novel, spanning 100 years of South Africa's troubled past and present.

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