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Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey from London to East Asia. He stops in Istanbul, a city of amazing mosques and churches but also with a seedier side.
Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar
Paul sets out from a rain-soaked London by Eurostar on his journey from Europe to East Asia. He stops in Istanbul, a city of extraordinary mosques and churches but also with a seedier side. From Turkey, he travels on to the Georgian border.
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- Mon 1 Sep 2008 09:45大象传媒 Radio 4 FM
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