A Good Read: Athena Kugblenu and Pope Lonergan
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BBC
4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Friends, sisters and serial killers all feature in the book choices for this week. Writer and stand-up comedian Athena Kugblenu picks 'My Sister the Serial Killer' by Oyinkan Braithwaite, a darkly comic tale which is as much about sibling rivalry as it is about murder. Nell Dunn's memoir about love and friendship, 'The Muse', is Harriett Gilbert's pick. And Pope Lonergan selects 'African Psycho' by Alain Mabanckou for its challenging portrayal of a frustrated and violent protagonist.
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for |
| 0:21.7 | Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fontunzelman. This is |
| 0:27.8 | The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading |
| 0:35.0 | a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:41.4 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:47.6 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:51.5 | Hello, today we've got friends, sisters and serial killers. And joining me to introduce |
| 0:56.8 | their goodread are two comedians. Athena Kubleni, whose radio four show Athena's cancel culture |
| 1:02.8 | is available on BBC Sounds, who's a lead writer for the sketch show Skechtopia, and who also |
| 1:08.3 | writes for horrible histories, the Russell Howardauer, |
| 1:11.3 | Dead Ringers and The Now Show among much else. |
| 1:14.6 | And with her, Pope Lonegan, writer and host of Pope's Addiction Clinic and of the Care Home |
| 1:20.1 | Tour, which seriously takes slapstick comedy into care homes. |
| 1:24.6 | Pope's debut book, I'll Die After Bingo, Comes Out Next Year. |
| 1:30.0 | Athena Kubleni, would you start us off? What have you chosen as a good read? |
| 1:34.2 | I chose my sister The Serial Killer by Oyn Kahn Braithwaite, because it's funny. |
| 1:41.3 | I went through many years just reading nonfiction. I don't know why I just read a lot of nonfiction |
| 1:46.0 | because I think I was thirsty for knowledge |
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