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World Service,12 Nov 1996,28 mins

James Herbert's 48

Meridian

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A review of James Herbert's latest novel 48. Also in the programme, how the poetry of Wilfred Owen, who was killed in the closing days of the First World War, was set to music by Benjamin Britten in his War Requiem and Harry Schneider remembers English poetry from the World War II.

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