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Paul Mendez, Class & Society novels, Thomas Keneally on Dickens

Mariella Frostrup talks to Paul Mendez about his debut novel Rainbow Milk, a portrait of a young black man's sexual awakening and struggles to make a new life in a hostile city.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Paul Mendez about his debut novel Rainbow Milk, a portrait of a young black man's sexual awakening and struggles to make a new life in a hostile city

Continuing the 主播大秀 's 100 Novel's That Shaped Our World series, Preti Taneja and Amanda Craig discuss this month's theme of Class & Society.

And Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark and giant of Australian literature, gives an imaginative introduction to Charles Dickens' classic novel A Christmas Carol in the last of our guides to school syllabus texts.

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  • Sun 31 May 2020 16:00
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