Death of Alan Paton
- Title
- Death of Alan Paton
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Obituary
- TX Date
- 12 Apr 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:01:36
- Description
- South African writer Alan Paton died this morning at the age of eighty-five of cancer at his home near Durban. He was best known as the author of Cry, the Beloved Country, first published forty years ago. His novel came to symbolise the liberal conscience of South Africa. Clip includes Paton reading from the novel. Nigel Wrench reports from Johannesburg. For AM programme.
- Contributors
- Nigel Wrench; Alan Paton
- Keywords
- Books; Authors; Deaths; Politics; Writers; South Africa; Apartheid; Economic sanctions; Novelists; AM (radio programme); Alan Paton; Cry, the Beloved Country
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