The Monocle Culture Show
Something old, something new: Alex Preston and Walter Donohue
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10 April 2017
Episode 287
28 minutes
Robert Bound sits down with author Alex Preston and his editor at Faber & Faber, Walter Donohue, to discuss the objects, books, plays and, in this case, plants, that have influenced them.
10 April 2017
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