A Good Read: Anne-Marie Duff and Louise O'Neill
Books and Authors
BBC
4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Actor Anne-Marie Duff and author Louise O'Neill join Harriett Gilbert for a discussion about favourite books. Anne-Marie Duff has starred in films including On Chesil Beach, Sufragette and Elizabeth I, and on TV in Shameless and From Darkness. Louise O'Neill's prize-winning novels include Only Ever Yours and Asking for It, and her latest book is a feminist take on The Little Mermaid called The Surface Breaks.
Anne-Marie chooses Nights At The Circus, the classic feminist novel by Angela Carter (Vintage), Louise puts forward a memoir about seventeen brushes with death by Irish author Maggie O'Farrell; I Am I Am I Am (Tinder Press), and Harriett recommends Conversations With Friends (Faber), a critically-acclaimed debut novel by another Irish author, Sally Rooney.
Producer: Eliza Lomas
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? |
| 0:21.3 | When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe? |
| 0:25.1 | I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.5 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:39.6 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:42.7 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:47.0 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:52.2 | With me today is the actor Anne-Marie Duff, seen most recently on stage |
| 0:56.6 | as Lady Macbeth at the National Theatre and in the cinema as the poor sweet brain-damaged |
| 1:01.4 | mother in on Chesel Beach. On television among much else, she was star of the crime drama from |
| 1:07.1 | darkness. With Anne-Marie is the author Louise O'Neill, |
| 1:13.5 | whose prize-winning novels include Only Ever Yours and Asking for It. |
| 1:15.7 | A stage adaptation of the latter opens |
| 1:17.5 | at the Abbey Theatre Dublin in November. |
| 1:20.1 | And in the meantime, Louise's latest book |
| 1:22.1 | is a feminist take on The Little Mermaid |
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