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World Service,29 Apr 1997,28 mins

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Meridian

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The winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Earl Lovelace. Also in the programme, as the return of Hong Kong from Britain to China looms, a book by Paul Theroux explores what the handover means for the island's inhabitants and two very different accounts of the tense situation of Muslims in the West.

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