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Tue 27 Mar 2012 00:30 BBC Radio 4
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Book of the Week, Book of the Week: Escape from Camp 14 Episode 1 of 5
Written by Blaine Harden.
Twenty six years ago, Shin Dong Hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Camp 14 is a 'complete control district' where the only sentence is life.
Prisoners work 15 hour days mining coal, building dams, sewing military uniforms. Beatings and executions are common and they are always hungry. No one born in one of these camps has ever escaped . until Shin. This is his story.
Read by Kerry Shale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
BBC Radio 4Mon 26 Mar 2012 09:45 BBC Radio 4 FM only
BBC Radio 4Tue 27 Mar 2012 00:30 BBC Radio 4
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