KENNETH ALLSOP introduces a selection of news about current books and talks to KEVIN MACRORY about his book Signal Catastrophe, the story of the retreat from Kabul in 1842 GABRIEL FIELDING on Somerset and all the Maughams, Robin Maugham's biography of his family
JOHN MOORE on Miss Jekyll, a portrait of a great gardener CHARLES OSBORNE on recent fiction
Produced by Joseph Hone