Simon Armitage and Sir Crispin Tickell
4 Extra Debut. Sarah LeFanu, Simon Armitage and Sir Crispin Tickell discuss books by Richard Fortey, Daniel Defoe and Muriel Spark. From December 1998.
Sarah LeFanu and her guests, poet Simon Armitage and diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell, discuss three favourite paperbacks.
Life - An Unauthorised Biography, by Richard Fortey
Publisher: Flamingo
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Penguin Classics
A Far Cry From Kensington, by Muriel Spark
Publisher: Penguin Books.
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