Episode 3
Pereira wonders why he's paying his assistant out of his own pocket when the articles he writes are unpublishable in the current political climate. Derek Jacobi reads.
Pereira has taken on a young assistant to help him with the culture page of a Lisbon newspaper. But the young man, though charming and eager to help, writes articles that are unpublishable in the repressive political climate of Portugal in 1938. And yet inexplicably, Pereira finds himself paying the young man out of his own pocket.
Written by Antonio Tabucchi
Read by Derek Jacobi
Producer: Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Wed 27 Jul 201122:45BBC Radio 4
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