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Greg James & Bella Mackie

Husband & wife team - the Radio 1 Breakfast host and the writer talk up their top reads with Harriett Gilbert.

Harriett is joined by a husband-and-wife team: Greg James, host of the Radio 1 Breakfast show and Radio 4's Rewinder, and Bella Mackie, author and Vogue columnist.

Bella loves Hamnet by Maggie O鈥橣arrell, Harriett chooses The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carr茅 and Greg picks Right Ho, Jeeves! He says it鈥檚 the funniest PG Wodehouse novel. But why did it make Bella think he was the right man for her?

Producer: Sarah Goodman

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28 minutes

Last on

Thu 18 Mar 2021 23:00

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  • Tue 16 Mar 2021 16:30
  • Thu 18 Mar 2021 23:00

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