Radio 4 Reading List
Bringing you the critical reaction to books mentioned on Radio 4.
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Start the Week
Plugging their books this week were PJ O’Rourke (Don’t Vote! It Just Encourages the Bastards, published by Grove Press) and Armando Iannucci with a Thick of It Christmas spin-off. Neither title has any press reviews, but we are able to bring you roundups for the entire post-2009 oeuvre of fellow guest Mary Beard, the thinking man’s Bettany Hughes.
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (which the TV series she was talking about is based on)
It’s a Don’s Life (a collection of musings from her inimitable blog)
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Book of the Week
Apparently Catherine of Aragon was anorexic. You can read more about this in Giles Tremlett’s very well received Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen.
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