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Radio 3,20 Oct 2011,45 mins

John Sutherland

Night Waves

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John Sutherland has written 'Lives of the Novelists - A History of Fiction in 294 lives.' Anne McElvoy delves into the seven hundred pages that take us from the seventeenth century until today, from John Bunyan to Rana Dasgupta and asks Sutherland to defend his choices.

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