with Magnus Magnusson
LENA JF. GER, MP, looks at Old Age, Simone de Beauvoir 's study of society's treatment of old people in the past and now; Hugh Leonard talks about Sean O'Casey as revealed in his autobiography, being published in paperback, with readings by O'Casey himself; and other books including The Lunatic Express by Charles Miller, the true story of the building of a railway across East Africa in the 1890s.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK