Bill Paterson and Dea Birkett

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actor Bill Paterson and travel writer Dea Birkett - discuss favourite paperback books by Bernhard Schlink, John Steinbeck and Richard Holme.

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Publisher: Phoenix

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics

Footsteps by Richard Holmes Publisher Harper Press

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011.