04/08/2009
Peter White and guests review audio books of the latest Ruth Rendell, a biography of a house and garden and the story of an extraordinary blind traveller.
Two audio book fans, the Guardian writer Sue Arnold and travel company director Amar Latif, join Peter White to discuss options for summer holiday reading.
Sue chooses Adam Nicholson's Sissinghurst about his famous family's famous home and garden, and Amar Latif chooses A Sense of the World by James Roberts, a biography of James Holman, a blind explorer globe-trotting 200 years ago. Peter White picks Portobello, the latest crime chiller by one of his favourite novelists, Ruth Rendell.
Audio books reviewed in this programme:
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson, read by Jeremy Clyde
Portobello by Ruth Rendell, read by Nigel Anthony
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveller by Jason Roberts, read by John Curless.
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