4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Nicola Walker and Sarah Ann Kennedy discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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0:41.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:45.6 | Hello, today two actors introduce their choice of good read. |
0:52.0 | Nicola Walker is best known on television for Unforgotten, Last Tango in Halifax and Spooks, |
0:54.8 | while on stage she starred most recently in the curious incident of the dog in the night time, a view from the bridge and Mark Ravenhills The Cain. |
1:00.5 | She's about to start filming a second series of the split for BBC One. |
1:05.2 | With Nicola is Sarah Ann Kennedy, the voice of the ubiquitous Miss Rabbit in Pepper Pig |
1:10.1 | and of Nanny Plum in |
1:11.9 | Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom. For adults, she created, wrote and directed the animated soap, |
1:17.2 | Craxton Villas, and she's currently working on a TV documentary about women in the animation |
1:22.3 | industry. Sarah Anne Kennedy, let's start with you, your choice of a good read. |
1:34.2 | I chose dark places by Gillian Flynn because I'd seen Gone Girl and I'd read Gone it. I mean, I quite liked it. It's quite dark, but I didn't want to do Gone Girl. And also, |
1:37.9 | it was quite difficult for me to choose a book because everything I had chosen had been done. |
1:43.6 | So I kind of ended up going, what about this |
1:46.7 | one? And so, but I still really enjoys it. And I liked it because I felt it was a page turner. |
1:53.0 | I like the fact that her characters are quite dark and quite negative. And it's one of those |
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