A Good Read - 16/03/2010

Sue MacGregor talks to two leading virus experts, John Oxford and Dorothy Crawford, about their favourite books. Their choices include Defoe's fascinating description of the Great Plague and a classic tale of institutional repression set in a 1950s mental hospital Sue MacGregor 's choice: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Publ. Penguin Modern Classics John Oxford's choice: A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Publ. Penguin Classics Dorothy Crawford's choice: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage Publ. Faber and Faber.