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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston

Episode 2

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Keith Houston traces the use of skin in book manufacture and the bloody legacy of parchment. Read by Deborah Findlay. Show more

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