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Radio 4,23 Nov 2010,30 mins

Baroness Mary Warnock and John Telfer

A Good Read

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In a special edition of the programme recorded in front of an audience at the Bristol Old Vic, Sue MacGregor and guests Baroness Warnock and actor John Telfer talk about their favourite paperbacks. Baroness Mary Warnock is one of the country's leading philosophers and the author of more than 15 books, widely known for the work she has done on government committees. JohnTelfer plays the Reverend Alan Franks in The Archers. He studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has appeared in more than 35 plays with the Bristol Old Vic Company. The books they'll be discussing include Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and Philip Pullman's recent re-telling of the gospels, The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman Publisher: Canongate Books If It Bleeds by Duncan Campbell Publisher: Headline Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.

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