Baroness Margaret Jay and Ekow Eshun
Louise Doughty, Baroness Margaret Jay and Ekow Eshun discuss books by Douglas Coupland, Colm Toibin and Philip Larkin. From April 2000.
Louise Doughty and her guests Baroness Margaret Jay and journalist Ekow Eshun talk about favourite paperbacks by Douglas Coupland, Colm Toibin and Philip Larkin. From 2000.
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Flamingo
High Windows by Philip Larkin
Publishe: Faber & Faber
Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Publisher: Picador/McMillan.
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Tue 4 Apr 200016:30BBC Radio 4 FM- Sun 9 Apr 200023:00BBC Radio 4 FM
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