Jodi Picoult
Chooses Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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Best-selling American writer whose books include My Sister's Keeper (2004), Nineteen Minutes (2007) and The Storyteller (2013).
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Jodi Picoult chooses Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gone with the Wind (1936). Presented by John Wilson.
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Margaret Mitchell
The incredible story of how the then unknown writer Margaret Mitchell tried to stop her book from being published.
Originally broadcast in The Lady in Scarlett 29 November 1989 on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
Director David O. Selznick
Henry Goodman reads from the letters of David O. Selznick, director of the film Gone with the Wind (1939), starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
Originally broadcast in Book at Bedtime 29 December 1995 on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
Caesar and Cleopatra
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in an extract from George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra.
Originally broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ in 1951
Antony and Cleopatra
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier star in an extract from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Originally broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ in 1951
Vivien Leigh's troubled life
Biographer Hugo Vickers and Christina Gorner discuss the difficult relationship betweenΒ Laurence Oliver and Vivien Leigh. Presented by Humphrey Carpenter. Β
Originally broadcast in Great Lives on 15 October 2004 on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Mark Lawson interviews Jodi Picoult about her book The Storyteller
