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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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Jonathan Coe

Peter Marinker

Eleanor Tremain

Mair Bosworth

With Great Pleasure: Jonathan Coe

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09/02/2015

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Writer Jonathan Coe chooses his favourite pieces of poetry, prose and comedy.

Novelist Jonathan Coe, author of What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, presents his favourite pieces of writing to an audience at the Birmingham Literature Festival.

The novelist Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club and What a Carve Up!, chooses the pieces of writing that have meant the most to him and inspired his own work. 

His choices - including Lydia Davis, ee cummings, Henry Fielding and Thomas Hardy - are read by Eleanor Tremain and Peter Marinker for an audience at the Birmingham Literature Festival. 

Producer: Mair Bosworth.

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