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Radio 4,24 Nov 2009,30 mins

Kate Clanchy and Michael Dixon

A Good Read

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Sue MacGregor and her guests - poet, Kate Clanchy and director of the Natural History Museum, Sir Michael Dixon discuss their favourite paperbacks by Neil Astley, Paul Torday and H Rider Haggard. Kate's choice: Staying Alive by Neil Astley Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Michael's choice: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday Publisher: Phoenix Sue's choice: King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard Publisher: Penguin Classics First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009.

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