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7: 'Have you seen a dead body before?'

Episode 7 of 10

2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charting the crash and burn of a South African family, told over four decades and four funerals. Today: more questions over Astrid's confession...

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: both Astrid's brother and husband struggle after her shocking murder...

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

14 minutes

Last on

Tue 12 Apr 2022 22:45

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  • Tue 12 Apr 2022 22:45