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World Service,09 May 1991,29 mins

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas

Meridian

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Programme includes: In Praise of the Stepmother, an erotic novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas: Bernice Rubens on her new novel A Solitary Grief: British psychiatrist Dr Ann Dally on her book about surgery before anaesthetics, Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery: Clinton Heylin on his biography Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades.

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