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Tim Key and Susan Calman

Tim Key, Susan Calman, and Sue MacGregor discuss books by Ross Raisin, Steve Martin and Barbara Vine. From 2010.

Comedy performer and poet Tim Key and stand-up comedian Susan Calman talk to Sue MacGregor about favourite books by Ross Raisin, Steve Martin and Barbara Vine.

God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Publisher. Penguin

Born Standing Up: A Comic Life by Steve Martin
Publisher. Pocket Books

A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
Publisher. Penguin

First broadcast in Radio 4 in June 2010.

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Sun 26 Jul 202003:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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