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Books and Authors

A Good Read: Juno Dawson & Pandora Sykes

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Loyd Grossman and Skin from rock band Skunk Anansie talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books. Chosen books include Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham and The Underground Railroad by Colston Whitehead. Producer Sally Heaven.

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My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

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The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.

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to helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're

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all put together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music

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in your life, check out BBC Sounds. Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something

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you may not know. My name's Linda Davies, and I commissioned podcasts for BBC Sounds. As you'd expect,

0:46.4

at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, featuring the most knowledgeable experts

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and genuinely engaging voices.

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1:00.0

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1:13.2

This is the BBC.

1:18.2

Hello, today we've got cyberpunk, a fatal summer holiday and a story of love and life in three different versions.

1:25.8

With me to introduce their good read are the novelist Juno Dawson,

1:29.4

whose fictions include Margot and me, spot the difference and most recently clean.

1:34.8

TV writes in Juno's memoir, The Gender Games, have just been optioned by Benedict

1:39.2

Cumberbatch's production company, Sunny March.

1:42.6

With her is journalist Pandora Sykes,

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