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You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr: 5. Elections

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5. Elections

You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr

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It's 1994, and crowds, black and white, queue to vote in the General Election.

1994: The first free elections are held. 100 years of South Africa's troubled past and present. Read by Tracy Ann Oberman.

It's 1994, and as the crowds, black and white, queue to vote in the General Election, life is also about to change for Rayna and her daughter Irma.

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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