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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: Lynne Truss

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01/02/2007

Lynne Truss

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Lynne Truss harks back to 1974, with favourite literature including Dickens and HG Wells.

4 Extra Debut. Writer Lynne Truss harks back to 1974, with favourite literature from her teens, including Dickens and HG Wells. From February 2007.

Lynne Truss harks back to 1974, a time when she worked in a library, lived for literature, and proudly wrote "irony" in the margins of her books.

The writer's nostalgic selection ranges from Dickens and HG Wells, to less familiar names like Betty MacDonald and poet Vernon Scannell, with some heartfelt lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Blue.

Actors Helen Atkinson Wood, Philip Franks and Peter Marinker join Lynne at the Drill Hall, in London, to perform the extracts.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

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