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The World of Books

on BBC Home Service Basic

Introduced by Robert Gittings

Patrick Campbell talks about My Life and Easy Times

His brother Michael Campbell interviewed about his new novel Lord Dismiss Us

Jon Kimche reviews Treblinka, Jean-Francois Steiner's story of a revolt of Jewish prisoners in a Polish extermination camp

Dilys Powell on Buster Keaton in the light of his autobiography and of a new study by Rudi Blesh

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Gittings
Talks:
Patrick Campbell
Unknown:
Michael Campbell
Unknown:
Jon Kimche
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Producer:
John Laird

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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