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A Good Read: Barry Norman & Ben Pimlott

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Barry Norman & Ben Pimlott

16/09/2001

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Barry Norman and Ben Pimlott discuss George Orwell, Donna Leon and George Eliot.

4 Extra Debut. Matthew Parris, Barry Norman and Ben Pimlott discuss George Orwell, Donna Leon and George Eliot. From September 2001.

Matthew Parris and his guests, film critic Barry Norman and historian Ben Pimlott, discuss favourite books by George Orwell, Donna Leon and George Eliot. From 2001. 

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 
Publisher: Penguin 

Friends in High Places by Donna Leon 
Publisher: Arrow 

Middlemarch by George Eliot 
Publisher: Penguin.

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