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A Good Read Episodes

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    Sir Ernest Hall and Gillian Tindall

    Guests discuss books by Evelyn Waugh, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Marguerite Yourcenar.

  2. Monty Don and Penny Vincenzi

    Monty and Penny discuss books by the Oxford Dictionary, Hilary Mantel and William Cobbett.

  3. Peter Firth and Judith Palmer

    Peter and Judith discuss books by Rohinton Mistry, Cecil Lewis and John Banville.

  4. UA Fanthorpe and Bernard Knight

    Fanthorpe and Knight discuss books by Gerald of Wales, Ursula LeGuin and Robert Holdstock.

  5. David Delvin and Anna Raeburn

    David and Anna discuss paperbacks by Elie Wiesel, Somerset Maugham and Rose Macaulay.

  6. Neil Bartlett and Martin Bashir

    Neil and Martin discuss paperbacks by Frederick Rolfe, Richard Ford and Ian McEwan.

  7. 25/08/1998

    Wendy Cooling, Kit Wright and Thomas Sutcliffe discuss classic paperbacks for children.

  8. Kit Wright and Wendy Cooling

    Kit and Wendy discuss children's books by Philip Pullman, AA Milne and Richmal Crompton.

  9. Jim Crace and Lorelei King

    Jim and Lorelei discuss books by Grace Paley, Gerald Kersh and Tim Parks.

  10. Deborah Moggach and Trevor Phillips

    Deborah and Trevor discuss works by Charles Dickens, Andrew Miller and Lucy Ellman.

  11. Niall Ferguson and Armando Iannucci

    Tom Sutcliffe, Niall Ferguson and Armando Iannucci discuss their favourite books.

  12. Eleanor Bron and Roy Hattersley

    Eleanor and Roy discuss books by Tobias Wolff, Angus Wilson and Simon Gray.

  13. Graeme Garden and Helen Lederer

    Graeme and Helen discuss books by Laurie Graham, Richard Feynman and Julian Barnes.

  14. Penelope Fitzgerald and William Sieghart

    Penelope and William discuss Sarah Orne Jewett, Alan Isler and Jane Austen.

  15. Orlando Figes and Michael Schmidt

    Orlando and Michael discuss Elizabeth Bishop, Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James.

  16. Ken Livingstone and Polly Toynbee

    Ken and Polly discuss Don de Lillo, Arthur C Clarke and Alexandre Dumas.

  17. Geoff Dyer and Richard Holmes

    Richard and Geoff discuss works by Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Bernard.

  18. Mavis Nicholson and Toyah Willcox

    Mavis Nicholson and Toyah Willcox discuss books by Anne Tyler, Ben Okri and Fitzgerald.

  19. Warren Mitchell and Victor Adebowale

    Tom Sutcliffe, Warren Mitchell and Victor Adebowale discuss favourite books.

  20. John Lanchester and Susannah Clapp

    Tom Sutcliffe, Susannah Clapp and John Lanchester discuss Althea Hayter.

  21. John Bird and Professor Susan Greenfield

    Tom Sutcliffe, Susan Greenfield and John Bird discuss Gitta Sereny and Jerzy Kosinski.

  22. Judy Simpson and Tom Watt

    Tom Sutcliffe, Judy Simpson and Tom Watt on novels by Mary Shelley and Candia McWilliam.

  23. Tony Bullimore and Sophie Hannah

    Tom Sutcliffe, Tony Bullimore and Sophie Hannah discuss Iris Murdoch and Primo Levi.

  24. Lisa Jardine and Dr Peter Jones

    Tom Sutcliffe, Dr Peter Jones and Professor Lisa Jardine discuss Greek epigrams.

  25. Jo Brand and Jonathan Meades

    Jo Brand and Jonathan Meades on books by Michel Tournier, John Carey and John Banville.

  26. Sarah Maguire and Gillian Reynolds

    Sarah and Gillian discuss books by Peter Roget, Olaudah Equiano and Margaret Forster.

  27. Ann Widdecombe and Helen Wilkinson

    Ann and Helen compare books by Richard Dawkins, Brian Moore and Antonia Fraser.

  28. Diane Abbott and Bill Nighy

    Diane and Bill discuss titles by Mark Twain, John McGahern and Iain Sinclair.

  29. Anna Ford and Rick Stein

    Rick and Anna discuss books by John Lanchester, Les Murray and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

  30. Rachel Cusk and Lawrence Norfolk

    Lawrence Norfolk and Rachel Cusk discuss books by Martin Amis and Anthony Burgess.

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