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6: 'Shut up, just listen.'

2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charting the crash and burn of a white South African family through four decades and four funerals. Today: a confession, violence and tragedy...

2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charts the crash and burn of the Swarts, a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. Told over four decades and four funerals, it is the story of family, land and a promise, set against a changing South Africa.

Today: a confession, and a shocking ending for Astrid...

Reader: Jack Klaff
Writer: Damon Galgut
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett

14 minutes

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  • Mon 11 Apr 202222:45