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🗓️ 9 March 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Tobias Hill on his latest novel What was Promised and Tibor Fischer on Stefan Zweig.
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0:42.3 | slash radio 4. |
0:44.3 | Hello on today's programme. Author Tobias Hill takes us to the heart of a blitzed out community of EastEnders after the Second World War. |
0:52.3 | And with two new literary prizes announced, along with the revamping of many others, |
0:57.8 | we ask who do these gongs add most value for readers or writers? |
1:03.2 | Last Friday saw the release of director Wes Anderson's film, |
1:06.6 | The Grand Budapest Hotel, which recounts the adventures of the legendary concierge Monsieur Gustav H |
1:12.9 | and his lobby boy Zero. |
1:15.1 | Why do you want to be a lobby boy? |
1:17.2 | Who wouldn't? |
1:18.5 | At the Grand Budapest, sir. |
1:20.6 | And so my life began. |
1:22.4 | Junior lobby boy in training under the strict command of Monsieur Gustav H. |
1:26.8 | Many of the hotel's most valued and distinguished guests came for him. |
1:31.3 | I love you. |
1:32.1 | I love you. |
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