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Thur 3 Oct - with Graham Rogers - Swindon riots, Devizes Library Reading Group and Imber

We complete our series on the Swindon riots at the end of WWI. The Devizes Library reading group rate The Other Hand by Chris Cleave. And hear the latest in our series on Imber.

We complete our series on the huge riots which took place in Swindon at the end of the First World War.

Find out how the Devizes Library reading group rate The Other Hand by Chris Cleave, a novel about a Nigerian asylum seeker and a British magazine editor who meet during an oil conflict and are reunited in England several years later.

And you can hear the latest in our series on Imber: the village on Salisbury Plain where 70 years ago families were given just 47 days to pack up and leave so the military could take over. We hear from the Reverend Mark Jones who will preside over a special anniversary service this weekend.

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  • Thu 3 Oct 2013 14:00