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Series bringing fresh insight into lives through literature, with guest presenters

Series bringing fresh insight into lives through literature, in which guest presenters pick readings from their favourite pieces of poetry and prose

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With Great Pleasure: John Harris

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John Harris

16/01/2017

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Music journalist and writer John Harris selects music and writing that has shaped his life

Music journalist and writer John Harris presents words and music from The Mersey Sound to Rural Rides in the Country via Orwellian socialism and the lyrics of The Jam.

Journalist and author John Harris welcomes you into his home as he rummages through his shelves and digs in his record collection for music by The Jam and poetry from The Mersey Sound. Settle down with John and reader Pippa Haywood as they present writing on Fleet Street from Michael Frayn and take you on a Rural Ride to the Country with the writing of William Cobbett and Philip Larkin via a stop-off in suburbia and a tour of Orwellian socialism.

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