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Radio 4,2 mins

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Austrailian actor Mark Little reads from the humorous and seminal guide to hitch-hiking on a shoestring – The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe by Australian author Ken Welsh. The book was a right of passage in the 1970s and was stolen from many a library in Britain. Hitch-hiking is a survival of the fittest game and Welsh offers his training tips for getting picked up by a driver in a fancy car.

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