Johannesburg
Novelist Fiona Melrose explores her fraught relationship with Johannesburg. As she travels across her home city to get a new ID card she observes the rich and fractured lives around her, and finds hope in the most unexpected and bureaucratic of places.
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- Fri 15 Dec 2017 09:45BBC Radio 4 FM
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