A Good Read

Russell Kane & Sarah Perry


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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 BBC Radio 4 in November 2019.

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