Journalist, broadcaster and former editrice of The Erotic Review Rowan Pelling joins John, Andy and Mathew on the show to explain her love of Nigel Balchin's novel of the London Blitz, Darkness Falls From The Air.

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4'00 - Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

8'47 - The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner

16'55 Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin

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