4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Writer Julie Burchill and broadcaster Fred MacAulay argue about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Their choices are, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger; Alys, Always by Harriet Lane, and Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard. Produced by Beth O'Dea
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0:46.4 | Hello, welcome. Today, a hunt for phonies in the literary world, in the film world, and pretty well everywhere, according to Holden Caulfield. |
0:54.2 | My guests, with their choice of a good read, are first the journalist and author Julie |
0:58.8 | Birchall, who since the age of 17 has contributed to a mind-boggling range of publications |
1:03.8 | from the New Musical Express via the Mail on Sunday to The Observer. |
1:08.2 | Her books include the novel Sugar Rush and, coming out later this year, unchosen memoirs of a phylo-semit. |
1:16.0 | With Dooley, the comedian Fred McCauley, who presents BBC Radio Scotland's Breakfast Show, appears on the news quiz on Radio 4 and is a frequent TV presence in programmes such as have I got news for you, QI and Mock the Week. |
1:29.9 | And Fred, you go first. |
1:31.9 | I have chosen to read Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger. |
1:35.9 | It's something that I read when I was at school, and I read it with some irritation. |
1:41.2 | But then came across it again 10 years later later and then 10 years after that. So every |
1:45.9 | year that I've had a seven in my age, I have reread it and this is one of those years. And I think |
1:52.3 | what I've learned about Holden is that my attitude towards him has changed with every decade. |
1:59.2 | I didn't altogether get him to begin with. I think subsequent to |
2:03.2 | having children of my own, I can understand a wee bit more about him. It is vastly, vastly well read |
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