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A Good Read: Alistair Appleton and Simon Baron-Cohen

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Alistair Appleton and Simon Baron-Cohen compare favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

4 Extra Debut. Alistair Appleton, Professor Simon Baron and Harriett Gilbert discuss Patrick Gayle, Ian McEwan and Michael Innes.  From 2013.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - TV presenter, Alistair Appleton and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the department of Psychiatry at Cambridge - discuss favourite books by Patrick Gayle, Ian McEwan and Michael Innes.  

Notes From an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Publisher:  Harper Collins

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage

Operation Pax by Michael Innes 
Publisher: House of Stratus

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.

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