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on BBC Home Service Basic

Gavid Maxwell, in Edinburgh. talking to Magnus Magnusson about his autobiography The House of Elrig

John Terraine on Alister Horne's The Fall of Paris

John Moore on the re-issue of Henry Williamson's classic Tarka the Otter

Anthony Haden-Guest on the life stories of Edith Piaf, Humphrey Bogart, and Flo Ziegfeld

Introduced by Peter Barker

Contributors

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Gavin Maxwell
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Magnus Magnusson
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John Terraine
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Alister Horne
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Henry Williamson
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Anthony Haden-Guest
Presenter:
Peter Barker
Producer:
Joseph Hone
Source: Radio Times

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