Summary: This week Libby Purves is joined by Peter Brookes, the political cartoonist for The Times on his new book 'Hard Times'; writer Alexandra Fuller on her new book 'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness'; Albie Sachs, former high-court judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on his book 'The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter'; and actor Niamh Cusack who is playing Widow Quinn in 'The Playboy of the Western World' at The Old Vic.
