A Good Read

Chris Smith and Mavis Cheek

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Harriett Gilbert and her guests - politician, Lord Chris Smith and novelist, Mavis Cheek - discuss their favourite books by Robert Macfarlane, Frances Kay and Jackie Kay.

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

Publisher: Picador

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

Publisher: Granta Books
Micka by Frances Kay
Publisher: Picador

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011.

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