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A Good Read: Martin Stephen and Augustus Casely-Hayford

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Harriett Gilbert, Gus Casely-Hayford and Martin Stephens discuss favourite books.

4 Extra Debut. Harriett Gilbert, Gus Casely-Hayford and Martin Stephen discuss books by Aminatta Forna, Dan Vyleta and Thomas Hardy. From 2012.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests, historian, Gus Casely-Hayford and educationalist Martin Stephen discuss books by Aminatta Forna, Dan Vyleta and Thomas Hardy.

Gus chooses a fictional account of the fall-out from the conflict in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna's "The Memory of Love", which has a natural resonance with Harriett's own choice, "Pavel and I". This is a first novel from Dan Vyleta, set in post-war Berlin.

Martin Stephen brings with him “Poems of Thomas Hardy” selected by Claire Tomalin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012.

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