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4: 'Nest of vipers.'

Episode 4 of 10

2021's Booker Prize-winner, charting the crash and burn of a white South African family, through four funerals. Today: the Swart children gather again after a bizarre accident.

2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charts the crash and burn of the Swarts, a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. Told over four decades and four funerals, it is the story of family, land and a promise, set against a changing South Africa.

Today: the Swart children find themselves together again when their father is struck down by a snake bite...

Reader: Jack Klaff
Writer: Damon Galgut is a novelist who has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize, for The Good Doctor and In a Stranger Room. He lives and works in Cape Town
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett

14 minutes

Last on

Thu 7 Apr 2022 22:45

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  • Thu 7 Apr 2022 22:45