Episode 4
Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey from London to East Asia. He reacquaints himself with a much-changed Burma and its crumbling cities.
Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar
Paul reacquaints himself with a much-changed Burma and its crumbling cities. His initial reaction to the sad and skeletal city that used to be Rangoon is disbelief. But his time in Burma is not entirely gloomy, and his spirits are lifted by an unexpected encounter with his past.
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- Thu 4 Sep 2008 09:45麻豆社 Radio 4 FM
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