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29/08/2000

Sir Roy Strong and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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Louise Doughty, Roy Strong and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown debate books.

4 Extra Debut. Louise Doughty, Roy Strong and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on books by Eugenie Fraser, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Ian McEwan. From August 2000.

Louise Doughty and her guests art historian and gardener, Sir Roy Strong and journalist and campaigner on racial equality, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown discuss favourite books by Eugenie Fraser, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Ian McEwan. From 2000. 

The House by the Dvina by Eugenie Fraser 
Pub: Corgi 

Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah 
Pub: Penguin 

The Child in Time by Ian McEwan 
Pub: Vintage.

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