Joann Fletcher and Damian Barr

Writer Damian Barr and Egyptologist Joann Fletcher join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by Alice Walker, RE Witt and Leonora Carrington..

The Color Purple by Alice Walker Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Isis in the Ancient World by RE Witt Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2016.