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Radio 4,09 May 2010,30 mins

09/05/2010

Open Book

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Mariella Frostrup talks to the poet and novelist Blake Morrison about his latest book The Last Weekend, in which four friends' break by the sea turns into a nightmare of competition and recrimination. Sue Arnold chooses some of her favourite recent audiobooks, from Booker-winning fiction to Russian history. And the comedian Bill Bailey shares his passion for the novels of Somerset Maugham - and explains how a romantic moment on a remote Indonesian island prompted a love affair of a literary kind. Producer: Thomas Morris.

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