Penelope Lively and Will Smith

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Harriett Gilbert and her guests - novelist, Dame Penelope Lively and comedy writer, Will Smith - discuss their favourite books by John Kennedy Toole, Barry Lopez and Kingsley Amis. ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ by John Kennedy Toole Publisher: Penguin ‘Arctic Dreams’ by Barry Lopez Publisher: Penguin ‘Lucky Jim’ by Kingsley Amis Publisher: Harvill First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014.

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