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The Return of the Native

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Nicholas Shakespeare tells the story of his Brazilian brother-in-law's journey to Africa to confront, for the first time, the shocking facts of his family's roots in slavery.

Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories.

Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.

In 'The Return of the Native', Nicholas Shakespeare tells the story of his Brazilian brother in law's journey to Africa to confront, for the first time, the shocking facts of his family's roots in slavery.

Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

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Last on

Tue 31 May 2011 00:30

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