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Hello, today we're travelling from Antarctica via London to the Mediterranean.

Not perhaps the most practical route, but that's books for you.

And with me to introduce their good read are first

the artist Cornelia Parker, much of whose work involves the destruction and resurrection of

everyday objects. Cornelia's had recent solo exhibitions at Take Britain, the Museum of Contemporary

Arts Sydney and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. With her is Jeremy Lee,

chef proprietor of CuVardis Restaurant Members Club in Soho.

His first cookbook, the award-winning, cooking simply and well for one or many, came out last year.

Cornelia Parker, would you like to start us off?

What are you recommending as a good read?

It's South, which is a first-hunter count, of Shackleton's last voyage on the endurance, the boat that got marooned and the pack-ice in Antarctica.

So it's just a blow-by-blow description of what happened, how it happened, how they got stranded on pack-eyes, the boat got crumpled up and swallowed up and then they had to exist on, you know, and had a few small boats

and how they managed to survive in this horrible situation because they didn't expect to lose

their boat. What drew you to this? Are you particularly interested in Antarctica or what?

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