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Hello, welcome. Today we're off to the lethal cold of Norway, the heat of central Spain and the blood-slipery streets of Victorian London.

A giddying journey, but here to guide us, with their choice of a good read, are the Irish-Nigerian poet and dramatist, Gabriel Badamosi, whose plays include the award-winning the long-hot summer of 76 for Radio 3, and who earlier this year published his first novel, Vauxhall. And with Gabriel, the journalist

Brendan O'Neill, editor of the online magazine Spiked, columnist for among others the big issue, and author

of Can I Recycle My Granny and 39 other eco-dilemmas? The Daily Mail has called him one of Britain's

leading left-wing thinkers.

It's not clear whether that coming from the mayor is a compliment or not, but we will leave

that be. Brendan, tell us about your choice of a good read and what it is you like about it.

I've chosen Monsignor Keoti by Graham Green. I love this book. I think the main reason I love it is because it's about

a bromance, effectively, between a Catholic priest and a communist politician. And in my life,

I have been both a Catholic and a communist. So for me, reading this book is a bit like seeing my

own kind of inner moral turmoil splashed across the pages,

so I find that quite rewarding. And as its title suggests, it's a pastiche of Don Quixote.

And it's about a Catholic priest in post-Franco Spain who falls on hard times, gets into trouble with his bishop.

So he goes on a road trip with the communist mayor of the local town,

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