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Open Book: Timothy Mo, Stasi files and the London Book Fair

Mariella talks to award-winning writer Timothy Mo about his new book Pure.
Writers Anna Funder and Philip Sington tell how they were inspired by secret Stasi files in the old East Germany. And controversy at this year's 41st London Book Fair.

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