You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.

I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds.

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relationships, identity, comedy, even one that mixes poetry, music and inner city life.

So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next fact-checking, a feature,

and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its audience, and maybe that's you.

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Hello today, as last week, we're at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in a room

packed with readers curious to know what my guests will propose as a good read.

Those guests are, first,

the Norwegian author, Karl Uve-Knausgard, whose six-volume autobiographical novel, My Struggle, was a massive

international bestseller, and I mean massive in every sense, and who has just published the third

novel in his highly praised Morning Star series called The Third Realm.

Carl Uver is joined by the Scottish author Amy Lipptrot, whose award-winning memoir The Outrun,

has been made into a film starring Sir Sharonan, which has just gone on general release.

Amos-up book, The Instant, came out two years ago.

Karl Uvehnauskard, will you start us off? What have you chosen as a good read?

I have chosen one of my absolute favorite books, the names by Don Delillo. I first read it

in my early 20s and I were completely unprepared for it.

But it has been a formative book for my writing, I think, which really has been always there.

And now I reread it again because of this program and I still think it's a great novel.

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