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  4. 14/07/2009

14/07/2009

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Last broadcast on Fri, 17 Jul 2009, 23:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Kate Mosse talks to broadcaster and academic Dr Alice Roberts and writer and Benedictine monk Father Christopher Jamison about their favourite books. One book takes us for a walk in the woods, one to 1950s small-town America and the other to war-torn Turkey.

Books featured in the programme:

Home by Marilynee Robinson
Published by Virago

Wildwood by Roger Deakin
Published by Penguin

Bird Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
Published by Vintage.

Broadcasts

  1. Tue 14 Jul 2009
    16:30
    BBC Radio 4
  2. Fri 17 Jul 2009
    23:00
    BBC Radio 4

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30 minutes

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