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My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.

With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to

helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put

together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life,

check out BBC Sounds. Hello, it's a rather red carpet programme.

With me to share their book suggestions are two stars of stage and screen, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins.

It would take the whole programme to list their achievements, including the Oscars, Bafters,

Olivier's and so on they've accumulated. But most recently, Vanessa has written, directed and

performed in the stage play Vienna, 1934 to Munich 1938, starred in the film Mrs.

Lowry and Son, and appeared on TV in Call the Midwife and Wurzel Gummidge.

Eileen's most recent TV credits as an actor include Doc Martin and The Crown. As a writer, she co-created

the classic dramas upstairs, downstairs in the House of Elliot and adapted Virginia Woolf's

Mrs. Dalloway for the big screen, a film incidentally in which Vanessa starred. Eileen's memoir,

Will She Do, comes out in October.

Vanessa Reggrave, would you start us off by telling us what your choice of good read is?

Well, if you insist, I will.

My book is an extraordinarily written biography of Sylvia Pankhurst by Rachel Holmes, who wrote that fantastic book on Eleanor Marks.

I realized I had been brought up without any education at all into the Pankhursts as a family role in obtaining the votes for women in this benighted

backward country called the United Kingdom. I was not educated. My daughter was not educated

because she was mainly educated in the United States. Tasha was educated in Britain and she was not taught anything about the obtaining of votes for women in Britain. And neither is my granddaughter.

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