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Paul Henley speaks to Dan Wakefield, writer and friend of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, about a new collection of short stories by the author of the best-selling novel Slaughterhouse Five.
(Photo: Kurt Vonnegut in 1973. Credit: BBC)