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	Thursday 11.30-1200am, repeated Monday 00.15-00.45am


	An occasional series which brings fresh insight into lives through literature. Each week a guest presenter picks readings of their favourite poetry and prose.


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	Thursday 4 August 2005



Roy Hattersley In Praise of Limestone by W H Auden, from Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 Faber & Faber Bleak House by Charles Dickens Penguin Classics The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald Penguin Modern Classics Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Penguin Modern Classics Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare, from The Complete Works Collins Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, from The Complete Works Collins In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz by W B Yeats, from The Major Works Oxford World's Classics Dockery and Son by Philip Larkin, from Collected Poems Faber & Faber Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey Penguin Modern Classics

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