Simon Warner and Sophie Hannah
4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Sophie Hannah and Simon Warner discuss books by Kurt Vonnegut, Jill McGown and Kate Summerscale. From 2009.
Sue MacGregor and her guests - poet and writer, Sophie Hannah and music writer and academic, Simon Warner - discusses favourite paperbacks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jill McGown and Kate Summerscale.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Unlucky for Some: A Novel of Suspense by Jill McGown
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Publisher: Bloomsbury
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.
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