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Tokyo Book Fair

What the Japanese are reading in 1999: fairy tales and fantasies - and a lot of manga

What the Japanese are reading in 1999: fairy tales and fantasies - and a lot of manga.

Also on the programme: The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd, biologist Robin Baker talks about his book Sex in the Future and a review of Robert Twigger's Big Snake: The Hunt for the World's Longest Python.

Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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29 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project