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A Good Read: Stephanie Flanders and Roisin McAuley

Stephanie Flanders & Roisin McAuley

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Stephanie Flanders and Roisin McAuley discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

4 Extra Debut. Harriett Gilbert, Stephanie Flanders and Roisin McAuley on John Kenneth Galbraith, Patricia Ferguson and Ngaio Marsh. From 2011.

Harriett Gilbert is joined by the BBC's Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders and novelist and journalist Roisin McAuley to discuss favourite books.

Stephanie Flanders' choice is 'The Great Crash 1929', a classic account of financial disaster by one of the twentieth century's most influential economists, John Kenneth Galbraith. A witty and elegant analysis which is compelling even to those who can't tell their leverage from their margins.

Roisin McAuley chooses a novel by the award-winning Patricia Ferguson, 'Peripheral Vision'. The quality of her writing and the intelligence of her psychological insights into her characters has drawn comparisons to Muriel Spark.

Harriett's choice this week is a classic fifties detective story from Dame Ngaio Marsh: 'Singing in the Shrouds', her twelfth novel to feature the detective hero, Roderick Alleyn.

Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.

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