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Diana Athill shares favourite writing at the 2008 Cheltenham Literature Festival.

4 Extra Debut. Literary editor and memoirist Diana Athill shares some favourite writing at the 2008 Cheltenham Literature Festival.

Literary editor and memoirist Diana Athill, shares the rich pickings of a life spent among books.   

Her favourites include:  Coleridge's Kubla Khan, PG Wodehouse's inimitable Jeeves, and Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons.

From the 2008 Cheltenham Literature Festival. 

Readers: Pauline Munro and William Hope.

Producer: Mark Smalley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2008.

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