Original version

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

A Good Read

Factual

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

A Good Read: Souad Faress and John Sutherland

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Souad Faress and John Sutherland

31/08/1999

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Souad Faress and John SutherlandClose menu

Souad Faress and John Sutherland discuss books by Salman Rushdie and James Baldwin.

4 Extra Debut. Sarah LeFanu, Souad Faress and Professor John Sutherland discuss books by Salman Rushdie and James Baldwin. From August 1999.

Sarah LeFanu and her guests, actress Souad Faress and writer and lecturer Professor John Sutherland, discuss three favourite paperbacks. From 1999. 

Midnight's Children - by Salman Rushdie 
Publisher: Vintage 

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - by James Baldwin 
Publisher: Penguin 

Christina the Astonishing - by Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders 
Publisher: Two Rivers Press.

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

A Good Read

Souad Faress and John Sutherland

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 Extra

About BBC Radio 4 Extra