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Radio 4,02 May 2000,30 mins

Lyn MacDonald and Colin Blakemore

A Good Read

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Louise Doughty and her guests neurobiologist Sir Colin Blakemore and historian Lyn MacDonald discuss favourite paperbacks by Francoise Sagan, Antony Beevor and Allan Gurganus. From 2000. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor Publisher: Penguin Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan Publisher: Penguin Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus Publisher: Faber.

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