Stuart Maconie visits the legendary Shakespeare & Company bookshop

Jun 20, 2013, 04:14 PM

Michael Morpurgo, Kate Tempest, Sarah Hall and Olivia Chaney on the legendary bookshop Shakespeare and Company.

In this BBC Radio 4 documentary, Stuart Maconie travels to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in a bid to understand how a winding, twisting, bohemian bookstore in Paris has become a draw for generations of writers from James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg and 30,000 aspiring Tumbleweeds.

Listen on BBC Radio 4 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x97kg