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The Book Programme: 08/12/2007

08/12/2007

BBC Radio Ulster - The Book Programme, 08/12/2007

William Crawley meets international best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith.

William Crawley meets author Alexander McCall Smith, and Paddy Heaney and Cleena Foley review two sports books - The Gambler and Legends of Irish Boxing.

William Crawley meets international best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith, who created The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - a series of detective novels set in Botswana, and Paddy Heaney and Cleena Foley review two sports books - The Gambler and Legends of Irish Boxing. 

Plus the programme hears from local author Sean McMahon, who has written about some of Ulster's most infamous murder cases, and playwright Gary Mitchell explains why the Bible is his favourite book.

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