Alexander McCall Smith & Prof Lucie Green
Alexander McCall Smith, Lucie Green and Harriett Gilbert discuss Somerset Maugham, John Higgs and Lewis Carroll. From 2020.
Writer Alexander McCall Smith and Lucie Green, Professor of Physics at UCL's Dept of Space & Climate Physics, join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Somerset Maugham, John Higgs and Lewis Carroll.
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Heinemann
Watling Street by John Higgs
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Macmillan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.
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