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Radio 4,22 Jul 2007,30 mins

Summer Reading, Sam North, and Sue Townsend

Open Book

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Summer Reading Travel writers Hilary Bradt, Jennifer Cox and Rory Maclean join Mariella Frostrup to talk about the importance of books on their trips, and suggest some reading for this summer. Sam North Novelist Sam North talks to Mariella about his new darkly comic novel, The Old Country, three episodes in the life of Sir Michael Gough, once a member of the landed gentry but now impoverished and confused by the modern world. Word Plays Sue Townsend, creator of Adrian Mole, discusses the latest innovation in audio books - Macmillan Word Plays.

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