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Preethi Nair and Jay Rayner

4 Extra Debut. Preethi Nair, Jay Rayner and Sue MacGregor on favourite books by Malcolm Gladwell, David Sedaris and Joan Didion. From November 2007.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - novelist, Preethi Nair and journalist and restaurant critic, Jay Rayner - discuss favourite books by Malcolm Gladwell, David Sedaris and Joan Didion.

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Penguin

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group Limited

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

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30 minutes

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Tue 2 Apr 201900:30

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  • Tue 27 Nov 200716:30
  • Fri 30 Nov 200723:00
  • Mon 1 Apr 201918:30
  • Tue 2 Apr 201900:30

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