Russell Kane & Sarah Perry

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.