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Radio 4,·726 episodes
Simon and Sir Crispin discuss books by Richard Fortey, Daniel Defoe and Muriel Spark.
15 Dec 1998,·30 mins
Marie and Charles on books by Steinbeck, Elizabeth Gaskell and Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
08 Dec 1998,·30 mins
Guests discuss books by Evelyn Waugh, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Marguerite Yourcenar.
01 Dec 1998,·30 mins
Monty and Penny discuss books by the Oxford Dictionary, Hilary Mantel and William Cobbett.
24 Nov 1998,·30 mins
Peter and Judith discuss books by Rohinton Mistry, Cecil Lewis and John Banville.
17 Nov 1998,·30 mins
Fanthorpe and Knight discuss books by Gerald of Wales, Ursula LeGuin and Robert Holdstock.
10 Nov 1998,·30 mins
David and Anna discuss paperbacks by Elie Wiesel, Somerset Maugham and Rose Macaulay.
03 Nov 1998,·30 mins
Neil and Martin discuss paperbacks by Frederick Rolfe, Richard Ford and Ian McEwan.
01 Sep 1998,·30 mins
Kit and Wendy discuss children's books by Philip Pullman, AA Milne and Richmal Crompton.
25 Aug 1998,·30 mins
Jim and Lorelei discuss books by Grace Paley, Gerald Kersh and Tim Parks.
18 Aug 1998,·30 mins
Deborah and Trevor discuss works by Charles Dickens, Andrew Miller and Lucy Ellman.
11 Aug 1998,·30 mins
Tom Sutcliffe, Niall Ferguson and Armando Iannucci discuss their favourite books.
04 Aug 1998,·30 mins
Eleanor and Roy discuss books by Tobias Wolff, Angus Wilson and Simon Gray.
28 Jul 1998,·30 mins
Graeme and Helen discuss books by Laurie Graham, Richard Feynman and Julian Barnes.
21 Jul 1998,·30 mins
Penelope and William discuss Sarah Orne Jewett, Alan Isler and Jane Austen.
14 Jul 1998,·30 mins
Orlando and Michael discuss Elizabeth Bishop, Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James.
07 Jul 1998,·30 mins
Ken and Polly discuss Don de Lillo, Arthur C Clarke and Alexandre Dumas.
30 Jun 1998,·30 mins
Richard and Geoff discuss works by Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Bernard.
11 Mar 1998,·30 mins
Mavis Nicholson and Toyah Willcox discuss books by Anne Tyler, Ben Okri and Fitzgerald.
04 Mar 1998,·30 mins
Tom Sutcliffe, Warren Mitchell and Victor Adebowale discuss favourite books.
11 Feb 1998,·30 mins
Tom Sutcliffe, Susannah Clapp and John Lanchester discuss Althea Hayter.
04 Feb 1998,·30 mins
Tom Sutcliffe, Susan Greenfield and John Bird discuss Gitta Sereny and Jerzy Kosinski.
28 Jan 1998,·30 mins
Tom Sutcliffe, Judy Simpson and Tom Watt on novels by Mary Shelley and Candia McWilliam.
21 Jan 1998,·30 mins
Tom Sutcliffe, Dr Peter Jones and Professor Lisa Jardine discuss Greek epigrams.
07 Jan 1998,·30 mins
Jo Brand and Jonathan Meades on books by Michel Tournier, John Carey and John Banville.
06 Aug 1997,·30 mins
Sarah and Gillian discuss books by Peter Roget, Olaudah Equiano and Margaret Forster.
30 Jul 1997,·30 mins
Ann and Helen compare books by Richard Dawkins, Brian Moore and Antonia Fraser.
23 Jul 1997,·30 mins
Diane and Bill discuss titles by Mark Twain, John McGahern and Iain Sinclair.
16 Jul 1997,·30 mins
Rick and Anna discuss books by John Lanchester, Les Murray and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
09 Jul 1997,·30 mins
Lawrence Norfolk and Rachel Cusk discuss books by Martin Amis and Anthony Burgess.
02 Jul 1997,·30 mins
