Writer and author Jenny Colgan joins John and Andy to discuss R.F. Delderfield's epic of life in an English boarding school between the wars. Craig Brown's 'Ma'am Darling' and 'Priestdaddy' by Patricia Lockwood are the books we've been reading this week.

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7'42 - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

8'30 - Priest Daddy by Patricia Lockwood

13'45 - Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown

21'31 - To Serve Them All My Days by R F Delderfield

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