A Good Read: Melanie Reid & Andrew Cotter
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BBC
4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Columnist Melanie Reid adores This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway, a tragicomic account of her turbulent childhood in mid-century Scotland. Presenter Harriett Gilbert thinks John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a true masterpiece, and sports broadcaster (and famous dog owner) Andrew Cotter recommends The Wild Places by fellow mountain-lover Robert Macfarlane.
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Sarah Goodman.
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Leukin. |
| 0:22.1 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Alex von Tundselman. |
| 0:27.4 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:29.2 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.7 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:36.9 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:42.0 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. We don't always see eye-to-eye, |
| 0:47.8 | but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:51.9 | Hello, today, classic John LeCarray and and the wild places of Britain, among them young Janice |
| 0:57.7 | Galloway's family. With me to introduce their good read are first the broadcaster Andrew Cotter, |
| 1:03.5 | who for the BBC covers a range of sports including golf, tennis, athletics and the boat race. |
| 1:09.1 | He's also the owner of Labrador's Olive and Mabel, |
| 1:12.2 | videos of whom were an internet sensation during lockdown and about whom Andrews now written |
| 1:16.6 | two books, most recently Dog Days. With him is the author and journalist Melanie Reed. |
| 1:23.1 | Twelve years ago, Melanie broke her neck falling from a horse and is now tetraplegic. She charts her new |
| 1:28.8 | life in a column called Spinal Column in the Times Saturday magazine, and she's also published |
| 1:34.4 | a prize-winning memoir, The World I Fell Out of. Melanie, you first, what is your suggestion |
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