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Louis de Bernières was born in London in 1954. After graduating in Philosophy from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and passed his MA, with distinction, at the University of London. Louis de Bernières, who lives in Norfolk, published his first novel in 1990 and was selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer and his sixth novel, Birds Without Wings, came out in 2004. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994), won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel. A Partisan's Daughter 2008, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and his new book, Notwithstanding: English Village Stories, was published in Autumn 2009. As well as writing, he plays the flute, mandolin, clarinet and guitar.

Andrew Wincott is a British actor, perhaps best known as the voice of Adam Macy in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. He has performed in hundreds of dramas, serials, comedies and readings for BBC Radio including Book at Bedtime and the Afternoon Story and he has twice been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company. Some of Andrew’s lead roles include Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre and Alec in Tess of the d’Urbervilles.