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Book of the Week

Letters from South Africa

Episode 1: Strangers

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Journalist Bongani Kona reads the first of five letters by five local writers exploring life in South Africa in the week of the African National Congress conference. Show more

Book of the Week

Letters from South Africa

Episode 2

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Journalist Mark Gevisser shares his experience of returning from a peaceful life in France to a politically fraught South Africa. Show more

Book of the Week

Letters from South Africa

Episode 3: Shosholoza: The Train that Keeps Moving

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Letters from South African writers in the week of the ANC elections. Panashe Chigumadzi describes how it feels to be a foreign-born, black citizen of South Africa. Show more

Book of the Week

Letters from South Africa

Episode 4: This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Author Lidudumalingani Mqombothi reads the third of five letters by five local writers exploring life in South Africa in the week of the African National Congress conference. Show more

Book of the Week

Letters from South Africa

Episode 5: Johannesburg

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Five letters from five South African writers exploring aspects of life in the week of the ANC elections. Novelist Fiona Melrose explores her fraught relationship with Johannesburg. Show more