Alexander Waugh and Xanthe Clay
4 Extra Debut. Harriett Gilbert, Alexander Waugh and Xanthe Clay discuss books by VS Naipaul, Jane Grigson and Virginia Woolf. From 2011.
Harriett Gilbert talks to Alexander Waugh and Xanthe Clay about their favourite books.
Letters Between a Father and Son by VS Naipaul
Publisher: Picador
Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book by Jane Grigson
Publisher: Penguin
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Penguin
Producer Beth O'Dea
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.
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