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A Good Read: The Slide Area by Gavin Lambert Publisher

Series 507, episode 0

Sue MacGregor is joined by the comedian Mark Steel and the writer Duncan Fallowell to discuss books by Gavin Lambert, Gary Imlach and Don DeLillo. Their picks feature a poetic dissection of 1950s Hollywood, a poignant memoir of a footballing father, and a satire on global capitalism which divides opinion. The Serpent's Tail My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo Publisher: Picador First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007