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A Good Read: Judith Kerr and Matthew Kneale

Judith Kerr and Matthew Kneale

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Mother and son writers Judith Kerr and Matthew Kneale discuss their paperback choices.

4 Extra Debut. Judith Kerr, Matthew Kneale and Sue MacGregor on books by Art Spiegelman, Ryszard Kapuscinski and Jane Austen. From 2010.

Judith Kerr was known to generations of young readers for her celebrated series of Mogg books and her semi-autobiographical novel, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, a child's view of the rise of Nazism in pre-war Germany. Judith chose a powerful graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, which describes his father's wartime experiences as a Holocaust survivor. 

Alongside Judith is her son Matthew Kneale, whose novel English Passengers won the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize in 2000.  Matthew chooses Ryszard Kapuscinski's account of the fall of the Ethiopian dictator, Haile Selassie.  They also discuss Sue MacGregor's choice, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. 


The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman 
Publ. Penguin 

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuscinski 
Publ. Penguin Classics 

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 
Publ. Penguin Modern Classics

Producer  Mark Smalley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010.

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