A Good Read - Carol Morley and Will Hislop

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Society & Culture, Books

4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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THE RED PARTS by Maggie Nelson (Vintage), chosen by Carol Morley INVISIBLE CITIES by Italo Calvino (Vintage), chosen by Will Hislop ORDINARY PEOPLE by Diana Evans (Vintage), chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Film director Carol Morley chooses a memoir called The Red Parts, in which author Maggie Nelson tries to make sense of the horror, grief and scepticism of her own aunt's murder trial. A book that blurs the boundaries between personal memoir, psychoanalysis and true crime.

Comedian Will Hislop chooses Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, which transports us to 55 different fictional reincarnations of Venice through a series of beautifully detailed and occasionally absurd vignettes. Calvino's prose poems are ordered by theme and, as a reader, you can choose how you want to navigate his matrix of the chapters.

Harriett's choice takes us to London with a novel by Diana Evans called Ordinary People, in which two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, an intimate study of identity, parenthood and the fragility of love.

Presenter: Harriett Gilbert Producer: Becky Ripley

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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	Leukin. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex von
0:26.7	Tunselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.2	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:38.9	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:42.0	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:46.3	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:51.4	Hello, with me this week to talk about books they love are first the writer, actor and
0:56.0	comedian Will Hislop, whose online videos, including the lockdown hit Your Aunt at the NHS
1:01.6	clap, have been viewed by millions. We also appeared in such TV shows as Dreaming Whilst Black
1:08.0	and Prue. With him is the screenwriter and director Carol Morley,
1:12.9	whose films include the semi-documentary Dreams of a Life,
1:16.2	starring Zoe Ashton, the crime drama Out of Blue,
1:19.9	and most recently typist artist Pirate King,
1:23.6	a road movie about the artist Audrey Amis.
1:26.9	Carol, would you start us off? What have you chosen as a good read?
1:29.8	I've chosen the red parts by Maggie Nelson, autobiography of a trial.
1:35.1	And it's about her aunt who died in 1969.
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