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Adventures of an Imperial Babe

Gorgeous Zuleika is the heroine of Bernadine Evaristo's verse-novel, The Emperor's Babe

Gorgeous Zuleika is the heroine of Bernadine Evaristo's verse-novel of lust, violence and death in Roman Londinium of AD 211. Plus: Tennessee Williams' play Camino Real, inspired by Tangier of the 1940s and '50s, is performed there for the first time; English poet Wendy Cope reads from her new volume, If I Don't Know.
Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

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麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project