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World Service,12 Oct 1999,28 mins

American writer Dava Sobel

Meridian

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The author of Longitude on her book, Gallileo's Daughter about the Italian astonomer. Also on the programme: The Map Of Love by Ahdaf Soueif, Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera, the English poet Carol Ann Duffy reads from her collection of poems, The World's Wife and a report from the Frankfurt book fair. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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