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World Service,23 Feb 1999,28 mins

John le Carré's Single & Single

Meridian

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The British spy writer's novel is reviewed by the British politician Gerald Kaufmann. Also on the programme: Edmund White and Alain de Botton talk about the power of Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, the Czech writer Milan Kundera and the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos on his book Empress of the Splendid Season. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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