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Radio 4,15 Dec 1998,30 mins

Simon Armitage and Sir Crispin Tickell

A Good Read

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Sarah LeFanu and her guests, poet Simon Armitage and diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell, discuss three favourite paperbacks. Life - An Unauthorised Biography, by Richard Fortey Publisher: Flamingo Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe Publisher: Penguin Classics A Far Cry From Kensington, by Muriel Spark Publisher: Penguin Books.

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