5. Dear John le Carr茅...
From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom is writing to some key figures from modern literary history.
'Dear John le Carr茅,
I鈥檒l use your pseudonym, John le Carr茅, or your cover name, or whatever you called it, if you don鈥檛 mind. I don鈥檛 suppose you鈥檇 want me to call you by your actual name, David Cornwell...'
From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom imagines he's writing to some key figures from modern literary history.
Ian rounds up his series of fanciful communications, with a few letters to the late English-Irish spy novelist John le Carr茅.
Producer: Conor Garrett
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