Peter Bazalgette & Ali Smith
4 Extra Debut. Martha Kearney is joined by TV executive Peter Bazalgette and novelist Ali Smith to discuss books by Suetonius, Lewis Grassic and Henry Fielding. From July 2006.
Martha Kearney and her guests - TV executive, Peter Bazalgette and novelist, Ali Smith - discuss books by Henry Fielding, Suetonius and Grassic Gibbon. From 2006.
'Lives of the Caesars' by Suetonius
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics
'Sunset Song' by Lewis Grassic
Publisher: Gibbon Polygon
'Joseph Andrews' by Henry Fielding
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics.
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