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A Good Read: Simon Thurley & Susan Blackmore

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24/10/2006

Simon Thurley & Susan Blackmore

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Simon Thurley and Dr Susan Blackmore discuss their favourite books with Sue MacGregor.

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Simon Thurley and Dr Susan Blackmore discuss favourite books by Sam Harris, Andrew Roberts and JD Salinger. From October 2006.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - Simon Thurley of English Heritage and psychologist Dr Sue Blackmore - discuss books by Sam Harris, Andrew Roberts and JD Salinger. From 2006. 

For Esme with Love and Squalor by JD Salinger
Publisher: Penguin

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble by Andrew Roberts
Publisher: HarperPerennial

The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Publisher: Free Press.

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