Hi, it's Nicola Cochlin. Young people have been making history for years, but we don't often hear about them. My brand new series on BBC Sounds sets out to put this right. In history's youngest heroes, I'll be revealing the fascinating stories of 12 young people who've played a major role in history and who've helped shape our world. Like Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, Louis Braille and Lady Jane Grey,

History's youngest heroes with me, Nicola Cochlin.

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Hello on today's program.

We're zooming in on conflict.

With Russian booker winner Michael Shishkin

pulling out of a government-sponsored literary tour

on ideological grounds,

we examine why the relationship

between Russian authors and the state

continues to be so volatile.

And we revisit the horrors of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia.

The family who owned the baker's shop up sticks and are gone. There's no explanation, no note on the door, just an old notice in faded black felt tip, which asks customers to make their orders for the next day by 10 o'clock.

Somebody crosses out the word kleb and writes Kru.

Both of the words mean bread, but some people use one and some of the other.

The ones who start leaving are the klebs.

From Amanata Fauna's latest novel, The Hired Man.

We'll be discussing why she feels that such literary forays into past conflicts are good for the health of the nation and for novels.

And for those seeking gentler pleasures,

150 years since its publication,

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