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Radio 4,14 Jun 2011,30 mins

Bill Paterson and Dea Birkett

A Good Read

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Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actor Bill Paterson and travel writer Dea Birkett - discuss favourite paperback books by Bernhard Schlink, John Steinbeck and Richard Holme. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Publisher: Phoenix Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics Footsteps by Richard Holmes Publisher Harper Press First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011.

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