Afternoon Reading - An Elegy for Easterly - The Mupandawana Dancing Champion

Stories from Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah's debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly, which won the Guardian First Book Award for 2009. Just outside Harare, in Mupandawana, a nimble-footed coffin maker enjoys a little local celebrity and some relief from the daily struggle to make ends meet. However, a political intervention cramps his style. Read by Lucian Msamati. Abridged by Richard Hamilton.