Desert Island Books
We asked the following eminent persons what five books they would like to have if they were stranded on a desert isle, or, at least, which books they would recommend a postgrad spending a quiet evening with (apologies to BBC Radio 4):

Twenty Questions
Need we really say more? We inadvertently ended up quizzing two Moes.

• Maureen Carroll
• John Moreland

A Bone to Pick: Interview of Paul Halstead
with M.F. Lane and M.C. Giles

This started out a sequel to the interview with Mike Parker Pearson in issue 2 and ended up, rather like that interview, as four hours in the pub and a late night dinner to take the edge off. Paul talks about digging in Israel, Greece, and the Balkans, his attempt to take the pop music world by storm (well, kind of), and what it was like not to be in the 'coggie' playgroup at Cambridge in the late 1970s.

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