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Journalist India Knight and financial adviser Alvin Hall talk books with Harriett Gilbert.

4 Extra Debut. India Knight, Alvin Hall and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Barbara Pym, Rebecca Skloot and Boris Akunin. From 2014.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - journalist and author India Knight and financial adviser Alvin Hall - discuss favourite books by Barbara Pym, Rebecca Skloot and Boris Akunin. 

Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
Publisher: Virago

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
Publisher:  Orion

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2014.

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