Matthew Kneale
James Naughtie talks to Matthew Kneale about his award winning book English Passengers.
Bookclub · BBC Radio 4
September 3, 200627m 42s
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Show Notes
James Naughtie is joined by author Matthew Kneale, whose book English Passengers won Whitbread Book of the Year in 2000. They discuss this rampant and ambitious piece of writing that deals with big ideas like radical theory, genocide and Darwinism, yet is hilarious too.