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The road from Dover to Calais provides endless opportunity to be lodged uncomfortably, fed indifferent food and robbed on every occasion.
Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey, determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy with what he found there.
The road from Dover to Calais provides endless opportunity to be lodged uncomfortably, fed indifferent food and robbed on every occasion.
A Pacificus production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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- Mon 17 Aug 2009 22:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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