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Radio 3,1 min

'Introspection and self-pity weren’t encouraged in prison'

Private Passions

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Ronan Bennett tells Michael Berkeley how writing enabled him to express his experiences of wrongful imprisonment in Long Kesh Prison in the 1970s, following his turbulent experiences growing up as a Catholic boy in Belfast during The Troubles.

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