Ben Okri

Azaro is a spirit child, torn between the earth and the spirit world. As he struggles with his parents in the ghetto where he lives, he is constantly subjected to insidious attacks by the spirits who want him to return to their world. Why should he stay with the people with all the suffering?

Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter series title being used for all but the first. In 2010 a similar series also aired on BBC Two, Great British Railway Journeys.