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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Rebekah Staton

Gemma Jenkins

Penny Leicester

Nina Stibbe

Book of the Week: Love, Nina: Despatches From Family Life: Episode 5: Dissertations, Romance and Subterfuge

Love, Nina: Despatches From Family Life

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Episode 5: Dissertations, Romance and Subterfuge

Dissertations, Romance and Subterfuge

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Love, Nina: Despatches From Family Life, Dissertations, Romance and Subterfuge

Dissertation crises, spotting Samuel Beckett and employing subterfuge to save face.

Dissertation crises, spotting Samuel Beckett and saving face. Nina Stibbe's letters from 1980s literary London read by Rebekah Staton.

Mary Poppins meets Adrian Mole in Nina Stibbe's letters from the heart of 1980s literary London. Dissertation crises, spotting Samuel Beckett and employing subterfuge to save face.

Read by Rebekah Staton
Abridged by Penny Leicester
Produced by Gemma Jenkins.

Book of the Week: Love, Nina: Despatches From Family Life

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Nina Stibbe's letters from the heart of 1980s literary London. Read by Rebekah Staton

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