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A Good Read: Sir Digby Jones & Rupert Thomson

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Sir Digby Jones & Rupert Thomson

01/08/2006

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Sir Digby Jones & Rupert Thomson

Martha Kearney is joined by a former CBI director and a novelist to discuss summer books.

Martha Kearney is joined by former CBI Director General Sir Digby Jones and novelist Rupert Thomson to discuss books by Niall Ferguson, PG Wodehouse and Tim O'Brien. From Aug 2006.

Martha Kearney and her guests - business leader, Sir Digby Jones and cult novelist, Rupert Thomson - discuss books by Niall Ferguson, PG Wodehouse and Tim O'Brien. From 2006. 

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson 
Publisher: Penguin

The Clicking of Cuthbert by PG Wodehouse
Publisher: Penguin

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Publisher: Harper Collins.

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