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Radio 4,04 Jan 2000,30 mins

Sir Robert May and Pauline Melville

A Good Read

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Louise Doughty and her guests, former government chief scientist Sir Robert May and prize-winning novelist Pauline Melville discuss three favourite paperbacks by Primo Levi, Gilbert White and Mikhail Bulgakov. From 2000. If This Is A Man by Primo Levi Publisher: Abacus The Natural History of Selbourne by Gilbert White Publisher: Penguin The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Publisher: Flamingo.

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