Robert Nye discusses Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh. Elizabethan courtier poet, soldier and sailor, is the subject of Robert Nye's new novel. “The Voyage of the Destiny." It is the tragedy of an "attempted man of action" whose dream of discovering El Dorado in South America ended not in gold and triumph, but in his son’s death and his own execution. Robert Nye will talk on the BB.C. books programme (Concert programme. 7 p.m. today) about his fascination with this historical hero.
The Yamato was a Japanese battleship, the largest ever built. At the end of World War II she was sent into action against the Americans in an unsupported. suicidal, kamikaze role. An' English journalist, Russell Spurr. has spent more than 30 years preparing a book’ about the Yamato. In that book. "A Glorious Way to Die," he describes what the ship meant to the Japanese and to the Americans who con- * fronted this fanatical form of courage.
In "Stories from the Raj" 15 writers in the AngloIndian tradition are brought together. All were men and women who lived and wrote in the India of the British Raj.
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