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Sir Ernest Hall and Gillian Tindall

Sir Ernest Hall and Gillian Tindall discuss paperbacks by Evelyn Waugh, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Marguerite Yourcenar. From December 1998.

Sarah LeFanu and her guests, pianist and entrepreneur Sir Ernest Hall and writer Gillian Tindall, discuss paperbacks by Evelyn Waugh, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Marguerite Yourcenar. From December 1998.

Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classics

The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher: Carroll & Graf, Imported by Biblios

Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classics.

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