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A Good Read: John Bird and John Timpson

Series 1497, episode 9

Big Issue founder John Bird and businessman John Timpson talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Up for discussion are Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman, and thriller The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene.

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Harriett Gilbert
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John Timpson