Author and playwright Alice Jolly joins the Backlisted crew to discuss The Great Fire by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. Also, AA Gill and Spike Milligan have been Read This Week, and why it might be too late to start listening to jazz in your 50's.

Timings:

3'04 - Puckoon by Spike Milligan

10'49 - Poor Me: A life by AA Gill

17:53 - The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

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