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Niall Ferguson and Armando Iannucci

Tom Sutcliffe, Niall Ferguson and Armando Iannucci discuss their favourite books by Remarque, Carver and Beckett. From August 1998.

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests - historian, Niall Ferguson and broadcaster, Armando Iannucci - discuss three favourite paperbacks by Erich Maria Remarque, Raymond Carver and Samuel Beckett. From 1998.

The English translation of Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet On The Western Front'
Publisher: Virago

'Will You Please Be Quiet, Please' by Raymond Carver.
Publisher: Harvill

'Murphy' by Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd.

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