Episode 3
Pico Iyer hits the hot and sultry streets of Havana, and of course Graham Greene is with him once more. Read by Paul Bazely.
"The high, thin light was turning the shacks and shanties on the hills to gold as I put my thoughts of Graham Greene behind me."
The travel writer Pico Iyer (author of Video Nights in Kathmandu, Falling Off The Map) has always wandered the world with a mentor 'looking on'. Whether it be Bogota, Cuba, California, Japan, the man inside Iyer's head, as he puts it, is always Graham Greene. And it is Greene's fights with faith, his reservations about innocence, his generous spirit, that are really inspiring. In the course of five episodes and from various destinations the author describes his fascination for the great man..
Pico Iyer hits the hot and sultry streets of Havana, and of course Graham Greene is with him once more..
Reader Paul Bazely
Producer Duncan Minshull.
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- Wed 22 Mar 201714:45BBC Radio 4 Extra
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