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On stage for our Gala Night of Storytelling: Voices From Elsewhere, writer John Birmingham tells the story of his friend’s enthusiasm for martial arts.

Birmingham explains how this passion and its focus on mental discipline may have inadvertently saved his protagonist from a dramatic end – but not in the way one might expect.

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20 Feb 2011

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