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Today we feature a former MP for a Welsh valley seat regarded by some as the greatest hero in the history of the Labour party. We have a girl who at 17 chose to be locked into a tiny cell attached to a village church. And then there are the two powerful women whose most unlikely friendship has lasted over forty years - the wife of a top Israeli general, and Yasser Arafat鈥檚 mother-in-law.

They are all with Roy Jenkins - well, in print form, anyway - because this is our annual book review programme.

The books being reviewed are:

Keir Hardie: Labour鈥檚 Greatest Hero?: Bob Holman

The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader

An Improbable Friendship: The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their 40-year Mission to Build Understanding Between Their Peoples by Anthony David

Personal choices of our contributors are:

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby聽

The Seasoning by聽Manon Steffan Ros聽

Not in God's Name. Confronting religious violence by Jonathan Sacks