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Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey from London to East Asia. Paul travels from Amritsar to Sri Lanka, a land still recovering from the 2004 tsunami.

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 travels from Amritsar in northern India to idyllic Sri Lanka, a land still recovering from the catastrophic 2004 tsunami.

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  • Wed 3 Sep 2008 09:45
  • Thu 4 Sep 2008 00:30

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