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A Good Read: Chris Smith and Mavis Cheek

Chris Smith, Mavis Cheek

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Lord Chris Smith and novelist Mavis Cheek compare favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

4 Extra Debut. Chris Smith, Mavis Cheek and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Robert Macfarlane, Frances Kay and Jackie Kay. From 2011.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - politician, Lord Chris Smith and novelist,  Mavis Cheek - discuss their favourite books by Robert Macfarlane, Frances Kay and Jackie Kay. 

Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Publisher: Picador

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane 
Publisher: Granta Books
 
Micka by Frances Kay
Publisher: Picador

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011.

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