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Radio 4,28 Apr 2016,30 mins

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Do borders enhance or diminish our lives? In this final episode, as Homer's Odysseus reaches Ithaka at last, Frances Stonor Saunders examines the impact of the borders we cross and asks, how we prepare for death, the final border crossing. With Judith Kerr, Juliet Mitchell, Jonathan Meades, Edith Hall, Helen Sharman. Readings by Sam West. Producer: Fiona Leach Researcher: Ruth Edwards.

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