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Jonathan Lee on High Dive

Duration: 28 minutes

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

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Novelist Jonathan Lee talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new book High Dive, a re-imagining of the events surrounding the bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton by the IRA during the Conservative Party Conference in 1984.

Also on the programme, novelist Sebastian Faulks reveals the influence of DH Lawrence on his own work, as he select Lady Chatterley's Lover as the Book He'd Never Lend, Mariella discusses prison book groups with Ann Walmsley and Sarah Turvey and Tatiana Salem Levy sends a literary postcard from Brazil. Show less

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Lee
Interviewed Guest:
Sebastian Faulks
Interviewed Guest:
Ann Walmsley
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Turvey
Interviewed Guest:
Tatiana Salem Levy

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