Comedian Russell Kane and novelist Sarah Perry join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Iris Murdoch, Heinrich Boll and Shirley Jackson.
The Train Was On Time by Heinrich Boll, translated by Leila Vennewitz
Publisher Penguin
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Publisher Vintage
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson, her slightly fictionalised memoir.
Publisher Penguin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2019.