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5: 'That old story.'

Episode 5 of 10

2021's Booker Prize-winner charting the crash and burn of a white South African family through four funerals. Today: after Pa's death, the thorny issue of the promise returns...

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 three siblings, land and a promise, set against a changing South Africa.

Today: after Pa's funeral and the reading of the will, the thorny matter of the promise re-emerges....

Reader: Jack Klaff
Writer: Damon Galgut
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett

14 minutes

Last on

Fri 8 Apr 2022 22:45

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  • Fri 8 Apr 2022 22:45