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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: 27/06/2010

27/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, 27/06/2010

Mariella Frostrup discusses Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird as it turns 50.

Writers join Mariella Frostrup to talk about Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird as it turns 50.

Bestselling novelist Lee Child, writer and actor Kwame Kwei Armah and the director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti talk to Mariella Frostrup to talk about Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" as it turns fifty. They are joined by author Meg Rosoff and writer and journalist Diane Roberts to discuss race, class and prejudice in Harper Lee's phenomenally successful, and only, book. 


Producer - Sally Spurring.

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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