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Hello, today some lesser-known Terry Pratchett, some lesser-known Mervyn Peake,

and a hard-boiled private eye sorting out a poisonous city.

With me to introduce their good read, our first, the comedian, Lucy Porter, a familiar face on TV panel shows such as QI and mock the week and a regular on Radio 4's news quiz and

the now show. Her latest stand-up show passes on towards the UK this spring. With Lucy is Frank

Kotrell-Boyce, a scriptwriter for numerous TV dramas, including Doctor Who,

and films such as a cock and bull story and goodbye Christopher Robin. His many novels for children

include Chitty Chitty-chitty Bang, Flies Again and most recently Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth.

Frank, would you start us off? What is your choice of a good read?

I've chosen Truckers by Terry Pratchett, which is the first part of his Bromeliad trilogy.

It's the story of some gnomes who live in a big department store, and the slogan of that

store is everything under one roof. And they've kind of made that into their religion, which is that

they believe there's nothing outside the store. Therefore, logically, there's nothing outside

the store. The store is everything. And then they're visited by some other gnomes who are from outside.

And so they have this huge kind of epistemological challenge that there is something outside.

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