A Good Read - 23/06/2009

Kate Mosse talks to two scientists, the writer and presenter Vivienne Parry and Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, head of the Institute of Physics, about their favourite books. The books under discussion are a classic novel, a piece of 20th century history and a romance described by one of the guests as 'Mills and Boon with vampires'. The books featured in this programme: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgov Published by Penguin Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology, edited by Dorothy Sheridan Published by Phoenix Twilight by Stephanie Meyer Published by Atom.