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A Good Read: Petroc Trelawny & Stuart MacBride

The broadcaster Petroc Trelawny and the novelist Stuart MacBride talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love, including a Hollywood memoir and a dystopian J. B. Ballard novel.

The broadcaster Petroc Trelawny, host of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, and the crime writer Stuart MacBride, author of the bestselling Logan McRae and Ash Henderson crime thrillers, talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love.

Petroc's choice is dystopian J. B. Ballard novel The Drought, Stuart's is the Hollywood memoir by David Niven, The Moon's A Balloon, and Harriett's is Borges and Me by Jay Parini.

Produced by Eliza Lomas.
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