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Literary magazine. Beryl Bainbridge , author of According to Queeney, a fictionalised book on Dr
Johnson, visits Johnson's London house to discuss his legacy with biographer Adam Sisman. Helen Lederer chooses the best new paperbacks and writer Lee Langley talks about her new novel Distant Music, in which the protagonist is reincarnated through different centuries. With Suzi Feay.
Producer Dymphna Flynn ; Series Producer Fiona McLean. Repeated
Thursday 4pm. October's Bookclubis is Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope. November's Bookclub is We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Bainbridge
Unknown:
Adam Sisman.
Unknown:
Helen Lederer
Talks:
Lee Langley
Unknown:
Suzi Feay.
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn
Producer:
Fiona McLean.
Unknown:
Wendy Cope.
Unknown:
Joyce Carol Oates
Source: Radio Times

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