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Episode 5

Five extracts from the autobiography of Salman Rushdie.

The author travels to India and absorbs the storytelling culture completely.
Then he tends to an ailing father. Then he delivers the manuscript that will
shape the rest of his life..

Reader Zubin Varla
Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Sat 22 Sep 2012 00:30

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