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A Good Read: Richard Stilgoe and Sarah Churchwell

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Richard Stilgoe and Sarah Churchwell

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Richard Stilgoe and Sarah Churchwell talk to Sue MacGregor about their favourite books.

Richard Stilgoe, Sarah Churchwell and Sue MacGregor discuss books by Vladimir Nabokov, Roald Dahl and LP Hartley. From 2010.

Songwriter and lyricist Richard Stilgoe and Sarah Churchwell, lecturer in American literature and culture, talk to Sue MacGregor about favourite books by Vladimir Nabokov, Roald Dahl and LP Hartley.

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics 

Matilda by Roald Dahl 
Publisher: Puffin 

The Shrimp and the Anemone by L.P Hartley 
Publisher: Faber Fiction Classics

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010.

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