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Proms Short Story
By Leonard Woolf.
An English novelist visiting Ceylon falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful native prostitute and buys her out of the brothel where she works in this acutely observed story of desire, expectation and colonial life at the beginning of the 20th century. Read by Alex Jennings.
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Sun 10 Aug 200820:30
BBC Radio 3
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- Sun 10 Aug 200820:30BBC Radio 3