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Source: BBC Radio 3 "Nightwaves" Friday 2 June 2006

Roundup

6-2-06

The Improbable Birth of Australia [audio 45min]

Booker Prize winning writer Thomas Keneally talks to Matthew Sweet about his latest book, The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia, which tells the story of the First Fleet's arrival in Australia in 1787.

Read entire article at BBC Radio 3 "Nightwaves" Friday 2 June 2006