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World Service,28 May 1996,28 mins

The Railway Man's path to Forgiveness

Meridian

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The Railway Man is Eric Lomax's prize-winning memoir of his time as a PoW on the Burma railway in World War Two and the story of how he met and forgave his Japanese torturer. Plus, Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet, on his vision of the future; Thomas Healy talks about his novel, A Hurting Business; John Lanchester on his novel, In the Debt to Pleasure.

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