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Hello, today I'm joined by best-selling novelist Jenny Colgan, whose many romantic comedies

include the loveliest chocolate shop in Paris, the Little Beach Street Bakery and most recently

summer seaside kitchen.

With Jenny, the spoken word artist Polar Bear, aka Stephen Camden, playwright and novelist,

whose most recent fiction for young adults is called It's About Love, which was also the subject of his radio four documentary, Tough Love,

that asked why there are so few love stories aimed at teenage boys.

Jenny Colgan, would you start us off your good read, not a love story?

Hello. No, very much not. I think it's kind of the time of year for it. It's into thin air,

and it's John Cracker's kind of account of he climbed Everest for a magazine and it happened to be one of those awful

Everest expeditions where loads of people die and it's become so common now but he was there this

eyewitness and not only was he and eyewitness but it was the first time they'd been able to get

it was about 1996 they had satellite phones up there they had video so it's the first recorded exhibition really they took the They had satellite phones up there. They had video.

So it's the first recorded exhibition.

Really, they took the IMAX cameras up there to see it.

And even though you know the outcome, it's the most, it reads like a thriller.

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