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BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Just to get you in the mood, the third man is 70, but we don't need an anniversary to celebrate the work of its iconic author Graham Green, the focus of this week's open book special.

Later on, the crime writer Peter James will take us on a tour of Green's malevolent Brighton.

But first, to guide us through the twists and turns of Green's oeuvre.

I'm joined by Louise Doughty, author of nine novels, including Appletree Yard and most recently Platform 7.

Also in the studio, we have Jonathan Wise, co-author of The Works of Graham Green,

a reader's bibliography and guide,

and a trustee of the Graham Green Birthplace Trust. And joining down the line, our man in

Bangkok, the writer Lawrence Osborne. Firstly, if I can start with you, Louise and Lawrence,

you both share the distinction of having been compared to Green. So what do you make of that comparison? Louise,

you first. Oh, I was thrilled to bits. I think I scraped both ears on the doorposts as I left the

room after that. That was actually Blackwater, my eighth novel, which was about political violence in

Indonesia, which drew a comparison with the Quiet American. And I think that's for several

reasons. I think obviously it's because it's about a kind of geopolitical situation. In my case, the Quiet American. And I think that's for several reasons. I think obviously it's because

it's about a kind of geopolitical situation, in my case the Cold War, but also because I think

it had a male narrator at the heart with a severe moral dilemma. And I think those are the two

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