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Terry Pratchett featured on BBC Radio 4’s With Great Pleasure tomorrow

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Tomorrow, December 25, at 12:00, BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a special edition of the program With Great Pleasure, entitled With Great Pleasure At Christmas, which will feature Terry Pratchett “revel[ing] in some of his favourite [sic] pieces of writing.”

In this festive episode, Terry Pratchett (with Helen Atkinson Wood, Michael Fenten Stevens, and Michael Maloney) presents readings from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Roughing It by Mark Twain, The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin, and The Book Of Job from the King James Bible.

Other writings selected for the episode are The Specialist by Charles Sale, Household Noises by Paul Jennings, The Maze Maker by Michael Ayrton, Lamb-Thoughts by J. B. Morton, Her Majesty’s Mails by William Lewins, The Poison Principle by Gail Bell, The Junkman Smiles by G. R. G. Worcester, Food In England by Dorothy Hartley, Sir George Caley by J. Laurence Pritchard, Republican Party Reptile by P. J. O’Rourke, and Once Upon An Ice Age by Roy Lewis.

The hour-long program will be rebroadcast December 26th at 8:00 on BBC Radio 4.

Last year’s With Great Pleasure At Christmas featured broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh.

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