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The Big Read

on BBC Two England

The search for the nation's number-one novel continues, with three films from the top 21, plus live voting updates and reports on the books that you are voting for.
9.10 David Dimbleby argues the case for Dickens's
Great Expectations, tracing the novel's events from the marshlands of Kent to the hustle and bustle of London.
9.40 Alan Titchmarsh gets romantic in Cornwall as he revisits the dark mystery of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
10.10 Jo Brand explains why she thinks George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four is the most incisive examination of political control and power ever written.
Votes can be cast on [number removed] (calls cost 15p), by texting 86200 (maximum 12p) or via the website www.bbc.co.uk/bigread. Digital satellite/cable viewers can vote via the remote control. Hosted by Clive Anderson. Producers Geoff Dunlop and Sally Thomson
Series producers Michael Poole and Mary Sackville West (S) RTSHOP: The Big Read Book of Books, £11.99 inc p&p. To order telephone [number removed] (calls charged at national rate)

Contributors

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David Dimbleby
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Alan Titchmarsh
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Jo Brand
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George Orwell
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Clive Anderson.
Producers:
Geoff Dunlop
Producers:
Sally Thomson
Producers:
Michael Poole

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