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World Service,13 Jul 1998,28 mins

Edward Ball interview

Meridian

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The American writer talks about his book Slaves in the Family, in which he traces the life of a distant ancestor who was a slave owner. Also on the programme: how protest poetry is struggling free from the binds of apartheid in South Africa, The New Yorker's Tina Brown leaves the magazine and the winner of the Carnegie Medal, Tim Bowler's River Boy. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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