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Hello, today we've got migrants desperate to escape from Europe,

poems of grief and dry, wry humour and a bunch of crooks and con artists.

And here to recommend their good read are the political journalist Fraser Nelson,

editor of The Spectator magazine and columnist for the Daily Telegraph,

and the novelist and critic Adam Marse Jones,

whose latest book, Kid Gloves, is a memoir of the formidable judge who was his father.

Adam, start us off with you with your good read.

Okay, well, it's a book of poetry, which isn't my main subject of expertise, but I find

Hugo Williams very seductive. It's hard to give a flavour of it. Perhaps the simplest way is

there's one poem called A Boy Call, which is a memory presumably of Eaton in the 1950s.

So it's about fagging.

It's about a boy being called,

but in the typical way of such establishments,

somebody shouts, and the last one there gets the job.

In other words, it's punitive.

And eventually he gets this note.

And when he opens it, he's supposed to take it elsewhere.

It says, what do you think of this one?

Get him to dance to Charleston.

So it's funny in its own right.

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