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Radio 3,8 mins

Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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Richard Flanagan's father was a Japanese POW on the "Death Railway". The Australian novelist talks to Anne McElvoy about how this was the inspiration for his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

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