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Something Sensational to Read in the Train

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1 I always like people who keep diaries,' wrote Chips Channon in his diary: 'they are not as others, at least not quite.' Why do people keep diaries? What value are they to posterity?
Nigel Rees examines a selection of 20th-century diaries including those of CECIL BEATON SIR HENRY CHANNON
JOYCE GRENFELL , THOMAS JONES LORD MORAN, HAROLD NICOLSON and VIRGINIA WOOLF With the opinions of Quentin Bell
Robert Rhodes James Keith Middlemass and . Nigel Nicolson
Readers SEAN BARRETT
MARGOT BOYD. MALCOLM HAYES and VIVIAN STANSHALL
Produced by ANNE DUNCAN-JONES

Contributors

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Chips Channon
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Nigel Rees
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Cecil Beaton
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Sir Henry Channon
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Joyce Grenfell
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Thomas Jones
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Harold Nicolson
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Quentin Bell
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Robert Rhodes James
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Keith Middlemass
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Nigel Nicolson
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Readers Sean Barrett
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Margot Boyd.
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Malcolm Hayes
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Vivian Stanshall
Produced By:
Anne Duncan-Jones
Source: Radio Times

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