Jim White & James Lasdun
Martha Kearney and her guests, sports journalist and broadcaster Jim White and poet James Lasdun, discuss books by Jean Rhys, Richard Flanagan and Barney Ronay. From June 2006.
Martha Kearney and her guests, sports journalist Jim White and poet James Lasdun, discuss favourite books by Jean Rhys, Richard Flanagan and Barney Ronay. From June 2006.
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, by Jean Rhys
Publisher: Penguin
Gould's Book of Fish, by Richard Flanagan
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Any Chance of a Game?: A Season at the Ugly End of Park Football, by Barney Ronay
Publisher: Ebury Press.
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Tue 13 Jun 200616:30BBC Radio 4 FM- Fri 16 Jun 200623:00BBC Radio 4 FM
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