On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for

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

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

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

Hello, today I'm joined first by writer and comedian Mark Steele, perhaps best known for his

radio four show Mark Steele's in town. He also presented the Mark Steele lectures for BBC

2 and is a regular on programmes such as Have I Got News For You and the News Quiz. His book,

Who Do I Think I Am, is available in Audible, and from this month, he's on a nationwide tour of his new stand-up show,

an evening and a little bit of a morning.

With Mark is the art historian, broadcaster and author Kate Bryan,

whose books include most recently bright stars, profiles of artists who died too young.

Kate's Global Director of Art for Soho House, and on TV,

on Sky Arts, she's a judge for both portrait artist and landscape artist of the year and presents

the series Inside Art. Kate, Brian, would you start us off? What is your choice of a good read?

My choice had to be a book by

Olivia Lang, she's one of my favourite writers, and it's a compendium of essays called Funny Weather

Art in an Emergency. I chose this book because I found it to be a source of great comfort. I

actually read it during the lockdown, and I came away just feeling like it solved a bit of a problem that I had

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