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Last broadcast on Thu, 28 May 2009, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Mariella Frostrup talks to author of The Long Firm, Jake Arnott. He discusses the subject of his latest novel, The Devil's Paintbrush, which centres on Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, a distinguished officer in the British army who committed suicide in 1903 after being accused of homosexuality.
BOOKLIST
The Devil's Paintbrush - Jake Arnott
Published by Sceptre
Five of the Best - Sir Michael Parkinson:
The Whitsun Weddings – Philip Larkin
Published by Faber and Faber
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Published by Penguin
The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
Published by Penguin
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack by Scyld Berry
Published by John Wisden & Co Ltd
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Published by Penguin Classics
A Reader’s Guide to Italo Calvino by Professor Joe Farrell:
The Cosmicomics
Published by Penguin Classics
The Path to the Spider’s Nests
Published by Penguin Classics
Our Ancestors
Published by Vintage Classics
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Published by Penguin Modern Classics
Hermit in Paris
Published by Vintage
If on a Winter's Night, a Traveller
Published by Vintage Classics
Broadcasts
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Sun 24 May 200916:00
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Thu 28 May 200916:00
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