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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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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. |
0:38.3 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, 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. |
0:51.3 | Hello, today I'm joined by violinist Nigel Kennedy, a star whose recording of Vivaldi's |
0:56.7 | four seasons alone has sold more than three million copies. And now, until the 14th of November, |
1:02.4 | you can catch him playing Bach with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in Mulvern, Oxford, |
1:07.6 | Safran Walden and the Barbican in London. With Nigel is the actor Claire Perkins, |
1:12.8 | perhaps best known as Ava Hartman in EastEnders, and seen most recently on television in the BBC |
1:17.9 | drama series Outlaws, in Bodies for Netflix and in Silo for Apple. On the big screen, Claire has |
1:24.8 | just starred in the murder mystery, Medusa Deluxe. |
1:28.8 | Nigel Kennedy, to you first. |
1:31.0 | Tell us about your choice of good read. |
1:33.3 | Well, you know, I love Mishima anyway, because I'm a big fan of Rueichi Sakamoto |
1:39.4 | and what he did with him, Magic Orchestra, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence |
1:44.5 | and other famous film music he wrote |
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