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New Novel Satirizes British Royal Family.

Maureen Corrigan on a British best seller, published this month: "The Queen and I" by Sue Townsend (Soho Books).

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Other segments from the episode on September 8, 1993

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, September 8, 1993: Interview with Harry Belafonte; Interview with Stan Sesser; Review of Sue Townsend's novel "The Queen and I."
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Actor and Singer Harry Belafonte

Actor and singer Harry Belafonte. He was born in Harlem and raised in the hills of Jamaica where he absorbed the song and music of the island life around him. Belafonte's first love was theater, however: he wasn't convinced that popular singing would take him as far emotionally as Shakespeare did. But by embracing the calypso music of his childhood he introduced it to America. This week, he performs his first public concert in New York City in over thirty years.

Black and white image of a young Harry Belafonte singing in a studio
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The Market for Cigarettes in Asia.

Journalist Stan Sesser, who details the successful marketing of American cigarettes in Asian countries in a New Yorker article, (September 6, 1993). Sesser claims the continent of Asia consumes half the world's cigarettes. Of particular interest to American tobacco firms is China -- despite explicit laws prohibiting the sale or advertising of foreign cigarettes -- because three hundred million people smoke (more people than the entire population of the United States).

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