Sukhdev Sandhu and Gavin Esler
4 Extra Debut. Sukhdev Sandhu and Gavin Esler join Sue MacGregor to discuss books by Daniel Mason, Arthur Koestler and Geoff Dyer. From 2008.
Sue MacGregor and her guests - film critic and writer Sukhdev Sandhu and former Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler - discuss three favourite paperbacks by Daniel Mason, Arthur Koestler and Geoff Dyer.
'Darkness at Noon' by Arthur Koestler
Publisher: Vintage Classics
'Out of Sheer Rage' by Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Abacus
'The Piano Tuner' by Daniel Mason
Publisher: Picador
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008.
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