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A Good Read: Philippa Forrester and Dwayne Fields

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Two very-different memoirs and a tale of two women on an adventure feature this week.

Transcript

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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.

0:38.6

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.

0:46.4

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.

0:51.6

Hello, today, two ill-matched ladies on an adventure in the South Pacific, plus a couple of

0:56.9

apparently very different memoirs. With me to introduce their good read, our first TV broadcaster

1:02.5

Philippa Forrester. Originally at CBBC, she's since presented among much else tomorrow's world,

1:08.7

robot wars, crofts and the heaven and earth show.

1:12.0

Her most recent book, inspired by time spent in Wyoming, is called On the Trail of Wolves,

1:17.7

and it's out in paperback in the spring.

1:20.5

With Philippa is the explorer Dwayne Fields, the first Black Britain to walk to the magnetic North Pole.

1:26.9

More recently, Dwayne was one of the explorers' guiding actor Will Smith around the world

1:30.6

in the Disney Plus series Welcome to Earth.

1:34.0

And via his We2 Foundation, he's just about to leave for the Antarctic

1:38.4

with a group of young people he hopes will become the next generation of explorers.

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