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A Good Read Episodes

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    Simon Hoggart and Jenny Lacey

    Sarah, Simon and Jenny discuss books by Ellen Gilchrist, Michael Frayn and Anthony Powell.

  2. Bibi Baskin and Giles Foden

    Bibi and Giles talk about books by Patrick McCabe, Paul Muldoon and Eric Newby.

  3. Howard Brenton and Alexander Walker

    Sara, Howard and Alexander discuss books by Primo Levi, Stefan Zweig and George Orwell.

  4. Richard Holmes and Hilary Mantel

    Sarah, Richard and Hilary discuss books by Molly Keane, Arnold Wesker and Henry James.

  5. Gareth Armstrong and Jenny Uglow

    Gareth and Jenny books by Bill Bryson, Penelope Fitzgerald and Jonathan Raban.

  6. Jim Perrin and Marina Warner

    Sarah, Jim and Marina discuss works by JM Synge, Robert Graves and Maeve Binchy.

  7. Rob Newman and Sara Wheeler

    Rob and Sara discuss books by David C Korten, Robert Byron and Margaret Forster.

  8. Shirley Hughes and Ken Smith

    Sarah LeFanu, Shirley Hughes and Ken Smith on books by Arnold Bennett and E Annie Proulx.

  9. Brian Aldiss and Richard Fortey

    Brian and Richard discuss books by T Coraghesson Boyle, Bernhard Schlink and Graham Greene

  10. Mick Aston and Penelope Leach

    Mick and Penelope discuss paperbacks by Oliver Rackham, RL Stevenson and William Golding.

  11. Bel Mooney and Dr Mark Porter

    Guests discuss books by Lidiya Ginzburg, Jonathan Coe, Randolph Nesse and George Williams.

  12. Simon Armitage and Sir Crispin Tickell

    Simon and Sir Crispin discuss books by Richard Fortey, Daniel Defoe and Muriel Spark.

  13. Marie Helvin and Charles Secrett

    Marie and Charles on books by Steinbeck, Elizabeth Gaskell and Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

  14. Sir Ernest Hall and Gillian Tindall

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

  15. Monty Don and Penny Vincenzi

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

  16. Peter Firth and Judith Palmer

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

  17. UA Fanthorpe and Bernard Knight

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

  18. David Delvin and Anna Raeburn

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

  19. Neil Bartlett and Martin Bashir

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

  20. 25/08/1998

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

  21. Kit Wright and Wendy Cooling

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

  22. Jim Crace and Lorelei King

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

  23. Deborah Moggach and Trevor Phillips

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

  24. Niall Ferguson and Armando Iannucci

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

  25. Eleanor Bron and Roy Hattersley

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

  26. Graeme Garden and Helen Lederer

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

  27. Penelope Fitzgerald and William Sieghart

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

  28. Orlando Figes and Michael Schmidt

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

  29. Ken Livingstone and Polly Toynbee

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

  30. Geoff Dyer and Richard Holmes

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

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