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A Good Read: Robert Service and Valentina Polukhina

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Sue MacGregor discusses books recommended by Robert Service and Valentina Polukhina.

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Robert Service and Valentina Polukhina discuss books by Mary Renault, Elena Shvarts and Anthony Burgess.  From 2010.

Two specialists of Russian history and literature, Robert Service and Valentina Polukhina, join Sue MacGregor to discuss books by Mary Renault, Elena Shvarts and Anthony Burgess. 

The King Must Die by Mary Renault 
Publisher. Arrow Books 

Birdsong on the Seabed by Elena Shvarts
 Publisher: Bloodaxe 

 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (see compliance notes)
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.

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