4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Ade Adepitan and Dominic Holland talk Adrian Mole, Roddy Doyle's the Snapper and Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood with presenter Harriett Gilbert.
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0:46.9 | Hello, welcome. A family called Rabbit in North Dublin, a teenager called Mole in Ashbid Lazouche, a bestiary of books today. |
0:55.7 | And with me to discuss them are first the Paralympic Basketball Champion and broadcaster, Adé Adepitán. |
1:02.2 | With Claire Balding, he was Channel 4's main presenter for the 2012 Paralympic Games. |
1:07.2 | And his more recent TV programmes include a documentary for dispatches on how complaints of police racism are handled. |
1:14.6 | With Adé is the award-winning comedian and author Dominic Holland, |
1:18.8 | whose acting credits include Rob Bryden's annually retentive on BBC 3 |
1:23.1 | and who for Radio 4 created the small world of Dominic Holland and Holland Shorts. |
1:28.9 | His fifth novel, Open Links, comes out later this year. |
1:33.8 | And, Dominic, it's a novel that you've chosen as your good read. |
1:37.2 | It is. It's Roddy Doyle's The Snapper. |
1:40.1 | I'm always very suspicious of books that are apparently funny. |
1:43.7 | And as a man who's, you know, makes people laugh for a living, I am always very dubious books that are apparently funny. And as a man who makes people laugh for a living, |
1:46.7 | I am always very dubious because most books I find not funny at all. |
1:50.3 | And I was a bit worried about choosing it because I'd read it on honeymoon in 1994, |
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