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Radio 4,·718 episodes
Monica Ali and Kevin Crossley-Holland discuss books by Jeanette Winterson, Julia Blackburn
20 Apr 2004,·30 mins
Jancis Robinson and Peter Preston discuss books by Max Hastings Elizabeth David.
13 Apr 2004,·30 mins
Hannah Gordon and Louise Welsh discuss books by Dodie Smith and James Hogg.
06 Apr 2004,·30 mins
Ken Russell and Ben Haggarty on books by Michael Frayn and Hugh Brody.
03 Feb 2004,·30 mins
Steve Norris and Theodore Zeldin discuss books by Hanif Kureishi and JM Coetzee.
27 Jan 2004,·30 mins
Diana Athill and John Calder discuss books by Helen Dunmore and Aldous Huxley.
20 Jan 2004,·30 mins
Steven Isserlis and Ardashir Vakil discuss novels by Carlo Levi and Richard Yates.
13 Jan 2004,·30 mins
Sue MacGregor joins Anna Raeburn and Paulette Randall to talk about their favourite books.
06 Jan 2004,·30 mins
Sue MacGregor is joined by former minister Clare Short and novelist Beryl Bainbridge.
30 Dec 2003,·30 mins
Stephen Frears and Sarah Waters discuss books by Arthur Ransome and Roddy Doyle.
23 Dec 2003,·30 mins
Roger Deakin and Kristine Landon-Smith discuss books by Shyam Selvadurai and TH White.
16 Dec 2003,·30 mins
Doris Lessing and Kenneth Grange discuss books by Claire Messud and John Krakauer.
09 Dec 2003,·30 mins
Brian Sewell and Josephine Hart discuss books by Simon Raven and Barbara Vine.
02 Dec 2003,·30 mins
Alan Coren and Anna Shapiro discuss favourite books by Philip Roth and Leo Tolstoy.
23 Sep 2003,·30 mins
Steve Jones and Fi Glover on books by Charles Kingsley and Samantha Weinberg.
16 Sep 2003,·30 mins
Jane Smiley and Helen Lederer discuss books by Muriel Spark and Nadine Gordimer.
09 Sep 2003,·30 mins
Mary Midgley and Al Alvarez discuss Doris Lessing and Barbara Kingsolver.
02 Sep 2003,·30 mins
Tony Howard and Ivan Massow on books by John Lister-Kaye and Marguerite Yourcenar.
26 Aug 2003,·30 mins
Elaine Showalter and Romesh Gunesekera on books by Willa Cather and Primo Levi.
19 Aug 2003,·30 mins
Anthony Green and Kathleen Griffin discuss UA Fanthorpe, Ernst Gombrich and Robert Sole.
12 Aug 2003,·30 mins
Sue MacGregor, Carol Drinkwater and Peter Stanford on Ann Patchett and F Scott Fitzgerald.
05 Aug 2003,·30 mins
Esther Rantzen and Oliver James on paperbacks by Jessica Mitford and Angela Carter.
29 Jul 2003,·30 mins
Claire Rayner and Miles Kington discuss paperbacks by Axel Munthe and Sarah Waters.
22 Jul 2003,·30 mins
Maureen Lipman and Christina Odone on books by James Lees-Milne and Carol Shields.
15 Jul 2003,·30 mins
Anthony Minghella and Susan Jeffreys discuss books by Harper Lee and Anne Carson.
06 May 2003,·30 mins
Aminatta Forna and Tim Healey discuss books by Laura Blumenfeld and Pascal Khoo Thwe.
29 Apr 2003,·30 mins
William Boyd and Paul Foot discuss books by Evelyn Waugh and Vladimir Nabokov.
22 Apr 2003,·30 mins
Rosie Boycott and guests discuss books by F Scott Fitzgerald, Simon Singh and Simon Gray.
15 Apr 2003,·30 mins
Fiammetta Rocco and Maxwell Hutchinson discuss books by Aminatta Forna and John Keay.
08 Apr 2003,·30 mins
Sue Limb and Philippa Gregory discuss books by Isabelle Allende and William Golding.
14 Jan 2003,·30 mins
