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Radio 4,15 Nov 2011,30 mins

Nerina Pallot and Peter Molyneux

A Good Read

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Harriett Gilbert is joined by award-winning singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot and computer games industry pioneer Peter Molyneux to discuss their favourite books. Nerina's choice is an elegiac story of loss and life - The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford. Peter has picked the gripping and intimate father-son story - The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Harriett's book is an intriguing and occasionally torrid collection of short stories - The Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers. Producer: Toby Field First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.

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