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Book at Bedtime - Black Orchids - Episode 9

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Amanda Root reads from Gillian Slovo's love story, set in 1950s Ceylon and London. It is now 1972 and Britain has changed since the fifties. But even though Emil's eccentricities now seem to fit with the times, his son is still ill at ease in his own skin.