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Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, published by Fourth Estate in 2014; cover design by Jo Walker.
Joining Charles Adrian for the 95th Second Hand Book Factory is designer and artist Bettina John. With scales being sung in the background and both host and guest suffering the comet tail of departed illness, they discuss books as physical objects with interesting histories, art that incorporates different realities in the same frame and stories that are just complex.
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing is also discussed in Page One 190.
Episode released: 13th September, 2016.
Book listing:
Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
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