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The Lost Archive of James Baldwin is a sweetly surprising documentary about a collection of possessions belonging to, yes, James Baldwin, the American writer and civil rights activist who died in 1987. Baldwin, whose novel Giovanni’s Room was read by Kyle Soller in Radio 4’s late book slot last week, was a hugely influential figure, and a favourite of presenter Tony Phillips when Phillips was a student of American literature in the late 1980s.
