4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Harriett Gilbert is joined by authors Kamila Shamsie and Jeffrey Archer
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0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy. |
0:05.4 | My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds. |
0:10.8 | The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that. |
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0:22.4 | helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put |
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0:35.0 | check out BBC Sounds. |
0:41.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:45.3 | Hello, with me today, two novelists. Baron Archer of Western Supermare, more popularly, Geoffrey Archer, |
0:49.3 | is the author of more than 30 bestsellers, including Cain and Abel, |
0:53.3 | first among equals, and recently the Clifton Chronicle series. His new book is the author of more than 30 bestsellers, including Kane and Abel, First Among Equals, |
0:55.2 | and recently the Clifton Chronicle series. |
0:57.8 | His new book, Heds You Win, is his first standalone novel in almost a decade and came out this month. |
1:05.3 | With Geoffrey is Carmilla Shamsi, nominated in 2013 as one of Granta's best young British novelists and whose |
1:12.3 | seven novels include burnt shadows, a god in every stone, and the latest home fire, winner |
1:18.5 | of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. |
1:22.5 | Geoffrey Archer, would you start by telling us what you recommend as a good read? |
1:26.4 | I recommended a book called Reunion by Fred |
1:30.2 | Allman. Fred Elman's one of those amazing men who could do almost anything. He started life |
1:37.7 | as an artist and that's how he saw himself and then wrote Reunion. I'm not saying as an amateur hobby, but almost. |
1:48.2 | It's a story of two boys at school. |
1:52.1 | One is an aristocrat, a German aristocrat, the other is the son of a doctor who is very clever. |
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