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A Good Read: Simon Hoggart and Jenny Lacey

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Simon Hoggart and Jenny Lacey

27/07/1999

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Sarah, Simon and Jenny discuss books by Ellen Gilchrist, Michael Frayn and Anthony Powell.

4 Extra Debut. Sarah LeFanu, Simon Hoggart and Jenny Lacey discuss books by Ellen Gilchrist, Michael Frayn and Anthony Powell. From July 1999.

Sarah LeFanu and her guests, journalist Simon Hoggart and broadcaster Jenny Lacey, talk about three favourite paperbacks. 

The Original - Michael Frayn 
Published by Methuen 

Starcarbon - Ellen Gilchrist 
Published by Bloomsbury 

The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell 
Published by Mandarin.

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