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04/01/2000

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Louise Doughty, Robert May and Pauline Melville discuss books by Primo Levi, Gilbert White

4 Extra Debut. Louise Doughty, Robert May and Pauline Melville discuss books by Primo Levi, Gilbert White and Mikhail Bulgakov. From January 2000.

Louise Doughty and her guests, former government chief scientist Sir Robert May and prize-winning novelist Pauline Melville discuss three favourite paperbacks by Primo Levi, Gilbert White and Mikhail Bulgakov. From 2000. 

If This Is A Man by Primo Levi 
Publisher: Abacus 

The Natural History of Selbourne by Gilbert White 
Publisher: Penguin 

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 
Publisher: Flamingo.

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