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Last broadcast on Fri, 29 May 2009, 19:50 on BBC Radio 3.
Synopsis
By Leonard Woolf, read by Alex Jennings.
An English novelist visiting Ceylon falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful native prostitute and buys her out of the brothel where she works. An acutely observed story of desire, expectation and colonial life at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Fri 29 May 200919:50
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