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The Book Programme

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The Year of the Penguin
The last Royal Silver Jubilee to be celebrated in Britain was in 1935. In that year Allen Lane founded Penguin books; T. E. Law rence died; Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and T. S. Eliot 's Murder in the Cathedral were first performed; and there were new novels from Graham Greene , George Orwell and Dorothy L. Sayers.
In the last programme of the series, Robert Robinson presents a digest of the books of 1935. Studio director SUE MALLINSON Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYATT

Contributors

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T. E. Law
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T. S. Eliot
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Graham Greene
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George Orwell
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Dorothy L. Sayers.
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Robert Robinson
Director:
Sue Mallinson
Producer:
Philip Speight
Producer:
Will Wyatt
Source: Radio Times

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