On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for

Leukin. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex von

Tunselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. Hello, today I'm joined by Annika Rice, best known for her TV show Challenge Anika,

but you can also catch her hosting Radio 4's Loose Ends, and she's recently made a stand-up comedy

series for Radio 4 called Anika Has Issues. With her is the author and translator Maureen

freely, the most recent of whose own novels, My Blue Peninsula,

came out last month, and whose many translations from Turkish include five books by the

Nobel laureate, Ohan Pamuk. Anika Rice, would you start us off with your choice of a good read?

Yes, now, this was a good read. I'm not saying it was the best read, but I'm doing what it says on the tin

and presenting you the last book I read when you got in touch to say would I be on the program

because I'd found it thoroughly good because it's set in the Far East. The book is by Tan

Twang Eng. It's called The Garden of Evening Mists. And why I absolutely engaged with it is because after living in the Far East for two or three years and traveling all over, it filled in so many gaps in my knowledge while flooding me with very nostalgic images and smells, you know, the complication, the melting pot of tension that is that whole area.

And the book takes in China, Japan, Malaya, as it used to be called, Singapore and South Africa.

And it's about, you know, the brutality, the power struggles.

But threaded through this political turbulence is a very gentle story about creating a Japanese garden. And the story

revolves around Ta Yun Ling, who's born in Penang. She's straights Chinese, which means she was

descended from the early Chinese immigrants who made the former British Malaya their new home.

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