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Tracy-Ann Oberman and Shaun Ley

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Tracy Ann Oberman and Shaun Ley discuss books by Gustave Flaubert, Aldous Huxley and David McKie. From 2008.

Sue MacGregor and her guests- actress, Tracy Ann Oberman and BBC journalist, Shaun Ley - discuss favourite books by Gustave Flaubert, Aldous Huxley and David McKie.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, tr. Geoffrey Wall
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Vintage

Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue by David McKie
Publisher: Atlantic Books

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008.

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