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Series bringing fresh insight into lives through literature, with guest presenters

Series bringing fresh insight into lives through literature, in which guest presenters pick readings from their favourite pieces of poetry and prose

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With Great Pleasure: Dr Oliver James

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Dr Oliver James

21/03/2011

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Psychologist Oliver James presents his favourite prose and poetry.

Psychologist Dr Oliver James shares some of his favourite pieces of writing, including This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin, and extracts from Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

This week's presenter is psychologist Dr Oliver James, whose first choice is one of the best-known examples in literature of very strong language, "This Be the Verse" by Philip Larkin. The programme includes extracts from Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar Wilde, some TS Eliot and RD Laing. 

Producer: Christine Hall.

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