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Episode Ten

By Marcel Theroux. In London with the Kapsbergers, and on the run from the North Korean secret police, Jun-su must make a life-changing decision

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 Ten
In London with the Kapsbergers, and on the run from the North Korean secret police, Jun-su must make a life-changing decision.

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

A Sweet Talk production for 成人快手 Radio 4

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Fri 21 Jul 2023 22:45

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