Sheila Hancock and Cosmo Landesman

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actress and author, Dame Sheila Hancock and journalist, Cosmo Landesman - discuss their favourite books by Toby Young, John Williams and Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Stoner by John Williams Publisher: Vintage

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young Publisher: Abacus

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.