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Radio 4,13 Dec 2005,30 mins

Hilary Spurling and Roy Strong

A Good Read

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Sue MacGregor and her guests - biographer and critic Hilary Spurling and historian and gardener Roy Strong - discuss favourite paperbacks by Thomas Hardy, Marjorie Bowen and EF Benson. From 2005. From the Ways with Words Festival, Southwold. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy Publisher: Oxford World Classics The Viper of Milan by Marjorie Bowen Publisher: Elliott & Thompson (Young Spitfire) Mapp and Lucia by EF Benson Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics.

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