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Radio 4,26 Jun 2016,28 mins

Ruth Gilligan, Vietnam novels, Kenneth Baker

Open Book

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Ruth Gilligan talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel, Nine Folds Make A Paper Swan, a story of the Irish Jewish community at the turn of the last century, in the fifties and in the present day. And Kenneth Baker discusses the strange and sad history of book burning, for political, personal and religious reasons.

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