A Good Read: Fee Mak and Ali Woods

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Society & Culture, Books

4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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REASONS TO STAY ALIVE by Matt Haig, chosen by Ali Woods ELENA KNOWS by Claudia Piñeiro, chosen by Fee Mak THE DETAILS by Ia Genberg, chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Comedian Ali Woods chooses a memoir by Matt Haig based on his experiences of living with depression and anxiety disorder. Moving, funny and incredibly honest, Reasons to Stay Alive is a book which blasts open the way in which we talk about depression.

Presenter and DJ Fee Mak chooses a novel by Claudia Piñeiro called Elena Knows, following a day in the life of Elena, a 63-year-old woman struggling to come to terms with both her own illness and the death of her daughter.

And Harriett Gilbert chooses a short Swedish novel by Ia Genberg called The Details, exploring the relationships that define us, and the small but profound details that stay with us.

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 Lucan.
0:21.6	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.6	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.6	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:28.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:36.6	Hello, my guests and I have each chosen a book to talk about that we really like.
0:41.7	Having read each other's choices, we may all share the love, or we may have a different take.
0:46.5	We'll see.
0:47.6	With me today, our first Fee Mac, presenter of the BBC One Extra Breakfast Show on Sundays.
0:53.2	Fee shares her love of books on her Instagram account,
0:56.2	High Shelf Esteem, and next month she'll be hosting
0:59.4	at the Southeast London Bookfest.
1:01.8	With her is the comedian Ali Woods,
1:04.1	host of the podcast, All I Do is Fail,
1:07.0	and currently on a nationwide tour
1:08.8	with, at the moment, his live stand-up show.
1:12.1	Ali's online comedy sketches are under the handle, Ali Woods Gigs.
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