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Radio 4,11 Nov 2008,30 mins

Robin Hanbury-Tenison and Sam Smith

A Good Read

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Sue MacGregor and her guests – explorer and conservation campaigner, Robin Hanbury-Tenison and ex-tennis player and commentator, Sam Smith - discuss books by Patrick Leigh Fermor, Brian Keenan and Herman Melville. The Violins of Saint-Jacques: A Tale of the Antilles by Patrick Leigh Fermor Publisher: John Murray An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan Publisher: Vintage Billy Budd by Herman Melville Publisher: Wordsworth Classics First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008.

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