Episode Two
By Marcel Theroux. Convalescing after an illness, Jun-su is visited by Teacher Kang who unlocks the mysteries of the strange, foreign book.
In 1995, an 11-year-old boy in North Korea, Cho Jun-su, stumbles across a strange, foreign book that will change his life.
Helped in private by a teacher, Jun-su learns that it is a Dungeon Master鈥檚 guide. Dungeons and Dragons opens up a whole new world of make-believe and imagination for the boy.
But in the years that follow, Jun-su learns that, in a totalitarian state, imagination can be a dangerous thing.
Episode Two
Convalescing after an illness, Jun-su is visited by Teacher Kang who unlocks the mysteries of the strange, foreign book.
The author Marcel Theroux is a British American novelist and broadcaster. He is the author of Far North, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The Sorcerer Of Pyongyang is his fifth novel.
Writer: Marcel Theroux
Reader: Edmund Kingsley
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
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