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The Death Row Book Club

How reading books by James Baldwin and Harper Lee immersed death row inmates into another world entirely.

When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for a double murder, he set up a book club for his fellow death row inmates. It was to get him through 28 years of solitary confinement.
Now a free man after the State of Alabama dropped all charges against him, he takes us back to the echoing corridors of death row and introduces listeners to his book club, including one member of the Ku Klux Klan. 
Producer: Sarah Shebbeare

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28 minutes

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Wed 5 Aug 202011:00
BBC Radio 4 FM

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  • Mon 3 Aug 202020:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Wed 5 Aug 202011:00
    BBC Radio 4 FM