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A Good Read: Rick Stein & Michael Dobbs

Series 507, episode 0

TV presenter Rick Stein recommends Sheila Stewart's Lifting the Latch (A Life on the Land), a book telling the story of a rural labourer from Oxfordshire, and a rival account to Flora Thompson's Lark Rise and Candleford tales. Politician Michael Dobbs nominates Train to Trieste, a love story set in Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, and Harriett Gilbert discusses Farewell My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler

Cast (unconfirmed)

Harriett Gilbert
Rick Stein
Michael Dobbs