Open Book - Frederick Forsyth, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Literary Salons in Afghanistan

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Frederick Forsyth, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Literary Salons in AfghanistanFrederick Forsyth, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Literary Salons in Afghanistan

Released On: 22 May 2011

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Mariella Frostrup talks to Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal.

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