Home Fire (Omnibus)

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Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Omnibus): Episode 2

Home Fire

Episode 2

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Omnibus)

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Omnibus), Episode 2

Parvaiz is sad to be leaving the family home.

Parvaiz is sad to be leaving the family home and wants to know more about his father. Read by Lisa Zahra and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

Parvaiz is discontented about having to leave the family home. He wants to know more about his father. 

Home Fire is about identity, conflicting loyalties, love and politics: a book for our times. 

Isma and Aneeka must keep a secret about their younger brother for their own protection and his. 

This breathtakingly topical, powerful thriller by Kamila Shamsie won the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction and was Book of the Year for all the major UK Newspapers. 

Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes abridged by Sara Davies. 

Read by Lisa Zahra and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2019.

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Drama: Thriller

Topical, award-winning thriller by Kamila Shamsie, read by Lisa Zahra.

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