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Marcelle d'Argy Smith and Barry Cunliffe

Marcelle d'Argy Smith, Barry Cunliffe and Sue MacGregor discuss books by Robert Harris, Voltaire and David M Friedman. From 2008.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - former Cosmopolitan editor, Marcelle d'Argy Smith and archaeologist, Professor Barry Cunliffe - discuss books by Robert Harris, Voltaire and David M Friedman.

The Ghost by Robert Harris
Publisher: Hutchinson

A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis by David M Friedman
Publisher: Robert Hale Limited

Candide by Voltaire
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics

Producer: John Byrne

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.

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