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A Good Read: John Sergeant and Hunter Davies

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John Sergeant and Hunter Davies

23/11/1999

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Bel Mooney, John Sergeant and Hunter Davies discuss Evelyn Waugh and Alfred Wainwright.

Bel Mooney, John Sergeant and Hunter Davies discuss Evelyn Waugh, Alfred Wainwright and Niall Williams. From November 1999.

Bel Mooney and her guests John Sergeant ( then the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent) and author Hunter Davies discuss their favourite paperbacks by Evelyn Waugh, Alfred Wainwright and Niall Williams. From 1999. 

Four Letters Of Love by Niall Williams 
Publisher: Picador 

Northern Fells by Alfred Wainwright 
Publisher: Michael Joseph 

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 
Publisher: Penguin.

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