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A Good Read Kaffe Fassett and Andy Summers

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The artist Kaffe Fassett and musician Andy Summers ex The Police choose books they love

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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

0:21.7

Leukin. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex von

0:26.7

Tunselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:37.2

Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

0:46.4

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.

0:51.2

Hello with me today, the musician Andy Summers, best known as lead guitarist with the

0:55.6

police and who's recently been active on several fronts. In August he published a collection of

1:00.7

short stories called Fretted and Moning, while his new album, Harmonics of the Night, was conceived

1:06.8

as the soundtrack to an exhibition of his photographs that will open in London next year.

1:12.2

With Andy is the artist and, in his words, Crusader for colour, Kaif Fassett.

1:17.9

Caf's written more than 50 books on colour in textiles, mosaic and painting,

1:22.7

the most recent of which is titled Caif Facet in the studio.

1:28.4

Andy Summers, would you start us off?

1:30.1

What have you chosen as a good read?

1:32.2

My choice for today is a tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki.

1:40.4

This is an amazing book.

1:42.8

One of the best books I've read in recent years. It's really the tale of between two women. Ruth, who lives in British Columbia, and now who's a Japanese teenager who has written a lot about her life, her story and traveling from California where she was a

2:07.0

younger teenager to live in almost poverty in Tokyo and then put all her thoughts in a diary

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