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Comic writing with Howard Jacobson, Alex Clark and Paul Murray

This week, we're cheering ourselves up with a podcast devoted to comic fiction.

John Crace digests PG Wodehouse's Right Ho, Jeeves, Richard Lea talks to Paul Murray (on the 2010 shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize) about his novel, Skippy Dies, and Alex Clark and Howard Jacobson come into the studio to discuss the place of the comedy in British fiction.

Reading list

Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Solar by Ian McEwan
Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray
One Day by David Nicholls
From Aberystwyth with Love by Malcolm Pryce
The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
Bilton by Andrew Martin
Towards the End of Morning by Michael Frayn
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Maria Vargas Llosa
Karoo by Steve Tesich

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