Shazia Mirza and Diana Quick
4 Extra Debut. Shazia Mirza, Diana Quick and Sue MacGregor discuss books by Lorrie Moore, Anton Chekov and Alison Lurie. From 2010.
Comedian Shazia Mirza and actress Diana Quick chat to Sue MacGregor about their favourite books by Lorrie Moore, Anton Chekov and Alison Lurie.
A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Faber
About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekov
Publisher: Oxford World Classics, translator: Rosamund Bartlett
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Publisher: Vintage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2010.
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