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Radio 4,26 Nov 2019,28 mins

Russell Kane & Sarah Perry

A Good Read

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Comedian Russell Kane and novelist Sarah Perry join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Iris Murdoch, Heinrich Boll and Shirley Jackson. The Train Was On Time by Heinrich Boll, translated by Leila Vennewitz Publisher Penguin Under the Net by Iris Murdoch Publisher Vintage Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson, her slightly fictionalised memoir. Publisher Penguin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2019.

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