John Timpson and John Bird

from A Good Read · host BBC Radio 4

Businessman John Timpson and Big Issue founder John Bird join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite their books by Thomas Hardy, Elif Batuman and Graham Greene. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Publisher: Wordsworth Classics The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman Publisher: Granta The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene Publisher: Vintage First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016.

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