"Gillian Reynolds: a Turkish sultan's court is brought vividly to life
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 19/08/2008
Gillian Reynolds on Radio
As readers, sub-editors and my children sometimes kindly remind me, not even I always know everything.
When I saw that Radio 4's Classic Serial was going to be Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red, I thought I might skip it because, much as I like the novel, it took me a month to read so I couldn't see how it would fit into (a) two episodes and (b) a comprehensible narrative. I was wrong."
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