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Marie Helvin and Charles Secrett

4 Extra Debut. Marie Helvin and Charles Secrett discuss books by John Steinbeck, Elizabeth Gaskell and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. From December 1998.

Sarah LeFanu and her guests, model Marie Helvin and former director of Friends of the Earth, Charles Secrett discuss three favourite paperbacks. From 1998.

Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Publisher: Arrow

Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: Oxford University Press

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Publisher: Mammoth.

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