Front Row | Khaled Hosseini
Based on The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, discusses his new illustrated book which is a response to seeing the photo of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey in September 2015.
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Content
- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 7'12''
- Broadcast date: 2018
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UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
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- Literary Resource
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