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We Are All Birds of Uganda Book at Bedtime

We Are All Birds of Uganda has been abridged for BBC Radio 4.
25th April 2021

    We Are All Birds of Uganda on the radio

    We Are All Birds of Uganda, the debut novel by Hafsa Zayyan, joint-winner of Stormzy’s #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, has been abridged for BBC Radio 4. Zayyan’s novel focuses on Sameer, a twenty-six-year-old Cambridge graduate and a rising star at his London law firm. Sameer has a swanky penthouse flat in Clerkenwell in central London, and his life appears to be ideal. His feet are kept firmly on the ground by two no-nonsense old school mates who follow him to the capital from their hometown, Leicester. The novel is abridged by Patricia Cumper for broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tvlh

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