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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

Open Book: 09/05/2010

09/05/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, 09/05/2010

Mariella Frostrup talks to Bill Bailey about his passion for Somerset Maugham.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Blake Morrison about his novel The Last Weekend, and comedian Bill Bailey reveals why he loves the work of Somerset Maugham.

Mariella Frostrup talks to the poet and novelist Blake Morrison about his latest book The Last Weekend, in which four friends' break by the sea turns into a nightmare of competition and recrimination. 

Sue Arnold chooses some of her favourite recent audiobooks, from Booker-winning fiction to Russian history.

And the comedian Bill Bailey shares his passion for the novels of Somerset Maugham - and explains how a romantic moment on a remote Indonesian island prompted a love affair of a literary kind.

Producer: Thomas Morris.

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