Jane Asher & Monty Don
4 Extra Debut. Rosie Boycott, Jane Asher and Monty Don discuss books by Joe Simpson, Adam Nicholson and Christ Stewart. From February 2002.
Rosie Boycott and her guests, actress Jane Asher and gardener Monty Don, discuss three books about faraway places - the outer Hebrides, the wilds of Spain and the Peruvian mountains by Joe Simpson, Adam Nicolson and Christ Stewart. From 2002.
Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson
Publisher: Vintage
Sea Room, by Adam Nicolson
Publisher: Harpercollins
Driving Over Lemons, by Chris Stewart
Publisher: Sort of Books.
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