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A Good Read: Gareth Armstrong and Jenny Uglow

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Gareth Armstrong and Jenny Uglow

20/04/1999

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Gareth and Jenny books by Bill Bryson, Penelope Fitzgerald and Jonathan Raban.

Sarah Lefanu, Gareth Armstrong and Jenny Uglow discuss books by Bill Bryson, Penelope Fitzgerald and Jonathan Raban. From April 1999.

Sarah Lefanu and her guests, actor Gareth Armstrong and biographer Jenny Uglow, discuss three favourite paperbacks by Bill Bryson, Penelope Fitzgerald and Jonathan Raban. From 1999. 

Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson 
Publisher: Penguin 

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 
Publisher: Flamingo 

Our Glory by Jonathan Raban 
Publisher: Picador.

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