BBC Radio 4 has rebroadcast earlier today a 2010 episode of their series A Good Read where a moderator and two guests discuss a book each of them has chosen. In this episode the moderator Sue MacGregor chooses Waugh’s 1930s novel Vile Bodies. Here’s a description of the broadcast:
Journalist and Strictly Come Dancing’s John Sergeant and food writer and TV presenter,Anjum Anand talk to Sue MacGregor about favourite books by Arthur Ransome, Aravind Adiga and Evelyn Waugh.
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
White Tiger by Arvind Adiga
The program can be heard over the internet on BBC iPlayer. The Waugh portion begins at about 17:00 if you want to skip the other two. Here’s a link.
