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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Henry Goodman

Paul Theroux

Katrin Williams

Duncan Minshull

Book of the Week: Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads: Episode 3

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, Episode 3

He meets Janet May of the Blue Shadows Bed and Breakfast, aka Miss Cotton Blossom 1949.

The author stays at the Blue Shadows Bed and Breakfast in Greensboro and meets its owner, Janet May, aka Miss Cotton Blossom 1949.

Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys through America's southern states
is timely, and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams:


3. The author stays at the 'Blue Shadows Bed and Breakfast' in Greensboro,
and through its owner, Janet May, meets Randall Curb. And through Curb
he will then encounter the legendary Mary Ward Brown, short story
writer, aged 96.

Reader Henry Goodman

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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

Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys through America's southern states.

Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys through America's southern states. Abridged by Katrin Williams and read by Henry Goodman

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