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A Good Read: Simon Blackburn and Carmen Callil

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11/12/2017

Simon Blackburn and Carmen Callil

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Simon Blackburn and Carmen Callil discuss books by Conrad, Hume and Hanan Al-Shaykh.

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Simon Blackburn and Carmen Callil discuss books by Joseph Conrad, David Hume and Hanan Al-Shaykh. From April 2005.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - philosopher, Simon Blackburn and founder of Virago, Carmen Callil - discuss books by Joseph Conrad, David Hume and Hanan Al-Shaykh. From 2005.

Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
Publisher: Penguin Classics 

Only In London by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher: Bloomsbury.

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