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Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
A celebration of reading and books from Toksvig at the Hay Library Lecture.
Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction- John Boyne on why Bruno reads Treasure Island
- John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity
- Cressida Cowell: Could dragons be real?
- The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
- Neil Gaiman: Why illustrators need to be good readers
- Women's liberation: William Banks-Blaney on how Coco Chanel used men's underwear
- Sheila Hancock: John was more like The Sweeney than Morse
- Stephen Fry on an unexpected Royal visit
- Courrèges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
- Rose Tremain's brush with Royalty
- Simon Schama on Germany's historical relationship with the Jews
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