118:(27 July 1939 – 10 January 2021) was an English author and screenwriter. Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the
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by the BBC, but kept in the form of a domestic FM recording by
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during a temporary French arms embargo in the 1960s, through
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