BBC R4 Documentary - 'People Of The Abyss'

Presented by Dan Cruickshank

Produced by Angela Hind

Broadcast April 9, 2012

Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1



Historian Dan Cruickshank visits some of the places

described in Jack London's book and examines what it

was that horrified Jack London so much that he wrote

to a friend:



'The whole thing, all the conditions of life, the

intensity of it, everything is overwhelming. I never

conceived such a mass of misery in the world before.'



Enough to break your heart.

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