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Battle for the Books - somewhere in the near future the world's last library is on fire. As smoke licks the shelves which books should we rescue?
Austen or Eliot? Dickens or Proust?
Tony Palmer fans the flames as Paul Bailey , Tom Paulin and Tim Waterstone fight for their favourites, before an audience at the Cheltenham
Festival of Literature.
Producer Abigail Appleton

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Palmer
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Paul Bailey
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Tom Paulin
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Tim Waterstone
Producer:
Abigail Appleton
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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