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Gareth Armstrong and Jenny Uglow

Sarah Lefanu, Gareth Armstrong and Jenny Uglow discuss books by Bill Bryson, Penelope Fitzgerald and Jonathan Raban. From April 1999.

Sarah Lefanu and her guests, actor Gareth Armstrong and biographer Jenny Uglow, discuss three favourite paperbacks by Bill Bryson, Penelope Fitzgerald and Jonathan Raban. From 1999.

Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Publisher: Penguin

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher: Flamingo

Our Glory by Jonathan Raban
Publisher: Picador.

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