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With Great Pleasure - Diana Athill

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Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. Literary editor and memoirist Diana Athill, now in her nineties, shares the rich pickings of a life spent among books with an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Among her favourites are excerpts from Chekhov, PG Wodehouse and Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons.