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A Good Read: Baroness Margaret Jay and Ekow Eshun

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Baroness Margaret Jay and Ekow Eshun

04/04/2000

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Margaret and Ekow discuss books by Douglas Coupland, Colm Toibin and Philip Larkin.

Louise Doughty, Baroness Margaret Jay and Ekow Eshun discuss books by Douglas Coupland, Colm Toibin and Philip Larkin. From April 2000.

Louise Doughty and her guests Baroness Margaret Jay and journalist Ekow Eshun talk about favourite paperbacks by Douglas Coupland, Colm Toibin and Philip Larkin. From 2000. 

Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland 
Publisher: Flamingo 

High Windows by Philip Larkin 
Publishe: Faber & Faber 

Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin 
Publisher: Picador/McMillan.

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