On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for

Leukin. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex von

Tunselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.

Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcast, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

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

Today, from an 18th century adventuress to a 21st century mother via love, death and a lot of food in Mexico.

With me to introduce their goodread are first the award-winning comedian Rialina, whose many TV appearances include Have I Got News for You, live at the Apollo and Mock the Week.

She also incidentally, or perhaps not incidentally, has a PhD in virology.

With her is the writer Otego Wagba, author of Whites on Race and other falsehoods,

and two Sunday Times bestsellers, Little Black Book, a toolkit for working women,

and we need to talk about money.

Or take a go, Wugba, would you start us off with your choice of a good read?

Of course. So the book that I chose is Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. I hope

I'm pronouncing that right. And I just love this book. I first read it when I was about 15,

when I was a teenager. and I was going through a real

magical realism phase, which is kind of a genre of literature that's very popular amongst

South American authors. And so I think I first read 100 years of solitude and then I read this and then

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