Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Professor Mary Douglas
Bonnie Greer, Jeremy Isaacs and Mary Douglas discuss books by Laurence Sterne, RL Stevenson and Barbara Reynolds. From 1999.
TV executive Sir Jeremy Isaacs and anthropologist professor Mary Douglas join Bonnie Greer to discuss favourite paperbacks by Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Barbara Reynolds.
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Publisher: Penguin
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Penguin
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds
Publisher: Sceptre
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999.
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