Jim Perrin and Marina Warner
Sarah LeFanu and guests Jim Perrin and Marina Warner discuss works by JM Synge, Robert Graves and Maeve Binchy. From April 1999.
Sarah Lefanu and her guests, rock climber Jim Perrin and writer Marina Warner, discuss three favourite paperbacks by JM Synge, Robert Graves and Maeve Binchy. From 1999.
The Aran Islands by J.M. Synge
Publisher: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
Publisher: Penguin
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Publisher: Orion.
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Tue 13 Apr 199916:00BBC Radio 4 FM- Sun 18 Apr 199923:00BBC Radio 4 FM
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