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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

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Open Book: 20/06/2010

20/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, 20/06/2010

Mariella Frostrup talks to Allison Pearson about her novel I Think I Love You.

Mariella Frostrup talks to columnist and author Allison Pearson about her latest novel, the successor to her bestselling I Don't Know How She Does It.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Allison Pearson, the columnist and author whose fiction debut I Don't Know How She Does It, about the challenges of juggling parenthood and a career, was a runaway bestseller. She discusses her latest novel I Think I Love You, about a woman who meets the singer David Cassidy, her idol as a teenager.

Critic Christopher Ricks offers an appreciation of Samuel Beckett's fiction.

And James Robertson explains why he's translated A A Milne's much-loved children's classic The House at Pooh Corner into Scots.

Producer: Aasiya Lodhi.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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