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Hello, today's programme is devoted to the reading choices of an actor whose abiding image in most women's eyes remains his emergence from a Regency Lake, wet shirt plastered to his torso, and features

furrowed in a classic Mr Darcy frown.

Who else but Colin Firth, whose role as the brooding Darcy and the television adaptation

of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, launched him into the public consciousness.

Firth's subsequent ambitious screenrolls choices

have been awarded with praise and gongs.

Nominated for an Oscar for his part in Tom Ford's directorial debut,

a single man, he finally won the statuette and a BAFTA too

for his portrait of the stammering King George the 6th in the King's speech.

Despite his escalation to the exalted heights of film Supernovas, he continues to walk

among us, an active campaigner on an array of political and social issues.

He's also recently co-compiled The People Speak, a book which brings to life through their

own words, the many voices of ordinary and extraordinary individuals who took on the establishment.

He joined me on Open Book to share his five of the best books, including The Leopard by the Sicilian writer Giuseppe di Lampedusa.

Suddenly, amid the group, appeared a young woman, slim in brown travelling dress and wide bustle,

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