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Russell Kane & Sarah Perry

Harriett Gilbert, Sarah Perry and Russell Kane discuss books by Iris Murdoch, Heinrich Boll and Shirley Jackson. From 2019.

Comedian Russell Kane and novelist Sarah Perry join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Iris Murdoch, Heinrich Boll and Shirley Jackson.

The Train Was On Time by Heinrich Boll, translated by Leila Vennewitz
Publisher Penguin

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Publisher Vintage

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson, her slightly fictionalised memoir.
Publisher Penguin

First broadcast on 91福利社 Radio 4 in November 2019.

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