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Joann Fletcher and Damian Barr join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books.

Damian Barr, Joann Fletcher and Harriett Gilbert discuss good books by Alice Walker, RE Witt and Leonora Carrington. From 2016.

Writer Damian Barr and Egyptologist Joann Fletcher join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by  Alice Walker, RE Witt and Leonora Carrington.. 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Isis in the Ancient World by RE Witt
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington 
Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2016.

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