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A Good Read: Les Dennis and Michael Simkins

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Les Dennis and Michael Simkins

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Les Dennis and Michael Simkins

Actors Michael Simkins and Les Dennis join Sue MacGregor to discuss some favourite reads.

4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Les Dennis and Michael Simkins discuss books by Saul Bellow, Patrick Hamilton and Gene Wilder.  From 2008.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - actors Les Dennis and Michael Simkins - discuss their favourite paperbacks by Saul Bellow, Patrick Hamilton and Gene Wilder.

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Publisher: Penguin

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Publisher: Constable and Robinson Limited

My French Whore: A Love Story by Gene Wilder
Publisher: Old Street

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.

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