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Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Lucy Porter

4 Extra Debut. Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Lucy Porter and Harriet Gilbert on books by Mervyn Peake, Terry Pratchett and Dashiell Hammett. From 2019.

Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce and comic Lucy Porter join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Mervyn Peake, Terry Pratchett and Dashiell Hammett.

Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake
Publisher: Methuen

Truckers by Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Corgi

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Orion

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2019.

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