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Australia's leading crime novelist Peter Temple talks to Mark Lawson about depicting a society shaped by both British colonialism and American power.
To complement Radio 4's major dramatisations of The Havana Quartet by Cuba's leading crime writer, Leonardo Padura, Mark Lawson, in Foreign Bodies, examines how mystery novels have reflected five different political systems.
Australia's leading crime novelist, the South African-born Peter Temple -- whose books include The Broken Shore and Truth -- talks to Mark Lawson about depicting a society shaped by both British colonialism and American power and why Australian crime fiction should contain as few words as possible.
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Thu 20 Nov 2014
13:45
成人快手 Radio 4
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- Thu 20 Nov 2014 13:45成人快手 Radio 4