Sir Christopher Bland and Charlie Higson
Louise Doughty, Christopher Bland and Charlie Higson discuss books by JM Coetzee, Jim Thompson and George Orwell. From March 2000.
Louise Doughty and her guests former BBC Chairman, Sir Christopher Bland and The Fast Show's Charlie Higson discuss paperbacks by JM Coetzee, Jim Thompson and George Orwell. From 2000.
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Publisher: Vintage
Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Publisher: Picador
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Publisher: Penguin.
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