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A Good Read: Stella Rimington and Terence Blacker

Stella Rimington and Terence Blacker

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Stella Rimington, Terence Blacker and Kate Mosse discuss their favourite reads.

4 Extra Debut. Stella Rimington, Terence Blacker and Kate Mosse discuss books by Italo Calvino, John Banville and Hanif Kureishi.  From 2008.

Kate Mosse and her guests - former MI5 chief, Stella Rimington and writer, Terence Blacker -  discuss their favourite books by Italo Calvino, John Banville and Hanif Kureishi.  

The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino, trans. William Weaver
Publisher: Vintage 

The Untouchable by John Banville
Publisher: Picador

Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Publisher: Faber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.

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