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A Good Read: Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Professor Mary Douglas

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Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Professor Mary Douglas

07/12/1999

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Jeremy Isaacs and Mary Douglas discuss Laurence Sterne, RL Stevenson and Barbara Reynolds.

4 Extra Debut. Bonnie Greer, Jeremy Isaacs and Mary Douglas discuss books by Laurence Sterne, RL Stevenson and Barbara Reynolds. From December 1999.

Bonnie Greer and her guests TV executive Sir Jeremy Isaacs and anthropologist professor Mary Douglas discuss favourite paperbacks by Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Barbara Reynolds. From 1999.

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 
Publisher: Penguin 

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 
Publisher: Penguin

Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds 
Publisher: Sceptre.

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