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World Service,15 Aug 2002,23 mins

Writing about war

Meridian

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What kind of writing is needed to capture the horror of war? Novelist and former war reporter Jeffrey Lee talks about the power of language to capture conflict. Also on the programme: poet Rumiko Miura who survived the atom bomb in Nagasaki. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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