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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: With Great Pleasure at Christmas - Melvyn Bragg

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25/12/2011

With Great Pleasure at Christmas - Melvyn Bragg

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Melvyn Bragg with a special programme of his favourite poetry and prose.

Melvyn Bragg with a special programme of his favourite poetry and prose, read by David Bamber, Eleanor Bron and Bill Paterson, with choristers from Carlisle Cathedral.

A special Christmas edition of the programme in which Melvyn Bragg looks back at the writing which inspired him when he was a young man. His choices include Dickens, Shakespeare and Wordsworth but also Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and a story from the December 1946 edition of The Wizard comic, in which the hero helps choose likely athletes for the forthcoming London Olympics. Melvyn's readers are Eleanor Bron, Bill Paterson and David Bamber, and choristers from Carlisle Cathedral open the programme with a favourite carol.

Producer Christine Hall.

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