Paul Theroux

19/01/2025 28 min

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Episode Synopsis

The award-winning travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux talks to Take Four Books about his latest short story collection - The Vanishing Point - and explores three other works that have helped to shape his writing. Paul's choices were: A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert (1877); Two Brothers by V S Pritchett (1932); and Riders In The Chariot by Patrick White (1961). Producer: Dominic Howell
Editor: Annie McGuire
This was a BBC Audio Scotland production

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