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A Good Read: Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

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Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones on books by George Orwell and Olaudah Equiano.

4 Extra Debut. Harriett Gilbert, Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones discuss George Orwell, Olaudah Equiano and James Baldwin. From 2012.

Actor Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, the self-described "Black Farmer", talk about the books they love.

Neil Pearson's choice is Coming Up For Air, a little-known novel by George Orwell about an ordinary man who yearns to recapture his childhood. But can we ever go back?     

Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones introduces the others to The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the autobiography of a man who was born into slavery. Does it matter if important first-person testimony is true in every detail?  

And presenter Harriett Gilbert's choice is Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, a European classic about an American man living in Paris who's struggling with his sexuality.  

Producer: Beth O'Dea

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011.

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