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With Great Pleasure

AS Byatt

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Booker Prize-winning novelist AS Byatt presents a selection of her favourite pieces of poetry and prose, at her home in London, with the help of her chosen actor Peter Eyre. Her choices include Beatrix Potter, Coleridge, Shakespeare, John Donne, Emily Dickinson, Alice Oswald and Terry Pratchett.

She talks about her life among books and how reading has been a passion from early childhood.

Producer Beth O'Dea. Show less

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