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Mark Knopfler and Esther Freud
Tom Sutcliffe, Esther Freud and Mark Knopfler discuss books by Alain De Botton, Robert Graves and Evelyn Waugh. From 1997.
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh:
Publisher: Pengiun
Essays in Love by Alain De Botton
Publisher: Piccador
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Publisher: Penguin.
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Wed 11 Jun 199710:00BBC Radio 4 FM- Sun 15 Jun 199721:00BBC Radio 4 FM
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