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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