A Good Read: Musa Okwonga & Sophie Heawood
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4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Writers Musa Okwonga (One of Them, Striking Out) and Sophie Heawood (The Hungover Games) share their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Musa chooses The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross, a crime novel set in the Caribbean. Sophie picks Lunch Poems, a collection by Frank O'Hara written on the streets of New York and Harriett introduces them to An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel, written before her Booker-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.
Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol, Eliza Lomas. comment on instagram at @agoodreadbbc
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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 |
| 0:21.7 | Leukin. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex von |
| 0:26.7 | Tunselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:38.9 | 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. |
| 0:46.3 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:51.4 | Hello, today we've got Caribbean Crime, New York, poetry and Hillary Mantel, |
| 0:56.7 | pre-Cromwell. With me to introduce their good read are the journalist and author Sophie Haywood, |
| 1:02.2 | who writes for The Guardian and the Sunday Times and Vogue, among other publications, |
| 1:07.0 | and whose best-selling memoir The Hung-over Games is just out in paperback. |
| 1:11.9 | With her, the writer, broadcaster and musician Musa Ongo Kwanga, |
| 1:15.6 | co-host of the Stadio Football podcast, his books just this year, |
| 1:19.5 | include the memoir One of Them, about his time at Eden College, |
| 1:23.5 | and co-authored with Ian Wright, the children's novel, Striking Out. |
| 1:28.4 | Musa, would you start us off? What is your choice of good read? |
| 1:32.7 | Yeah, first of all, thank you for having me. |
| 1:35.3 | My choice of good read is The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross. |
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