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🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Harriett Gilbert talks about books with poet Lemn Sissay and novelist Mick Herron.
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0:48.0 | Hello, with me today is the poet, playwright and broadcaster Lem Sisse, whose landmark poems adorn public spaces in Manchester, London and Addis Ababa, and who among much else was |
0:53.4 | official poet to the FA Cup |
0:55.0 | 2015. |
0:56.9 | Lem's memoir, My Name is Why, comes out later this year. |
1:01.6 | With him is the writer Mick Heron, author of the award-winning series of novels featuring |
1:05.8 | Jackson Lamb and his staff of variously messed-up spies, of which volume six, called Joe Country, |
1:12.6 | will be published in June. |
1:14.5 | Mick's latest standalone thriller, this is what happened, is now out in paperback. |
1:19.5 | But before we discover his and Lem's choice of a good read, we've now got a book club up |
1:24.4 | and running on Instagram and we'd love you to join. |
1:27.3 | You'll see what |
1:28.0 | guests such as Gemma Kearney, Rommis Ranganathan, Stacey Dooley and Stephen Frye have recommended, |
1:33.8 | and each week we'll post the latest book choices. If you've read them, we want to know what you |
1:38.7 | thought of them. Follow us at all one word, a good read BBC. So, Lem, your choice of a good read is? |
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