CJ Sansom
4 Extra Debut. Tudor crime writer CJ Sansom talks to readers about his first Shardlake novel, Dissolution. With James Naughtie. From August 2009.
James Naughtie and readers meet the best-selling writer CJ Sansom. They discuss Dissolution, the first in his series of Tudor mysteries featuring the investigator Matthew Shardlake.
Shardlake is sent to Sussex to investigate a murder in a monastery, just as Henry VIII is beginning his reformation of the Church.
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Sun 2 Aug 200916:00BBC Radio 4 FM- Thu 6 Aug 200916:00BBC Radio 4
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