Rebecca Abrams and Matt Ridley
4 Extra Debut. Kate Saunders, Matt Ridley and Rebecca Abrams on books by Elizabeth Taylor, Gerald Durrell and Charles Dickens. From 2011.
Kate Saunders and her guests - science writer, Matt Ridley and writer, Rebecca Abrams - discuss their favourite books by Elizabeth Taylor, Gerald Durrell and Charles Dickens.
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher: Virago
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Publisher: Puffin
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011.
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