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Hello, welcome to a good read where today I'm joined by the journalist and broadcaster Justin Webb

and the novelist Francis Fifeield.

Francis's first career was as a criminal lawyer, but over the last quarter century, she's

become one of Britain's

top authors of crime fiction, the most recent of her 21 novels being cold to the touch in the

Sarah Fortune series. The Crime Writers' Association has awarded her both its silver and its gold dagger,

and in France she's won the international Grand Prix de Literature Policier.

But according to Francis, among her proudest achievements, is presenting programmes such as Tales from the Stave for Radio 4.

Francis, welcome to a good read.

Good to be here.

And welcome Justin Webb.

Hello.

Justin's current post presenting Radio 4's today program is the latest in a long line of jobs

he's held with the BBC where he's worked since graduating from the London School of Economics in 1983.

Among other roles, he's been the Corporation's Europe correspondent and for eight years its chief correspondent in Washington.

He's written two books about the US, including most recently Notes on Them and Us,

and won awards for his coverage of the country.

Of late, he's been active in drawing attention to and trying to find a cure for type 1 diabetes

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