Jenny Colgan and Steven Camden (Polarbear)

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Author Jenny Colgan and writer/performer Steven Camden (Polarbear) join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Jon Krakauer, Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Jim Carroll.

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Publisher: Pan

The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll Publisher: Penguin

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Publisher: Egmont First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017.

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0:00.0	Things just swirling around my head.
0:03.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:06.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:11.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:13.4	I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift,
0:17.5	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:22.8	They did know that I was different.
0:25.7	You had kids together.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:27.4	Then you met.
0:28.3	Then we met.
0:29.2	The Gift.
0:30.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.3	This is the BBC.
0:38.3	Hello, today I'm joined by best-selling novelist Jenny Colgan,
0:41.3	whose many romantic comedies include the loveliest chocolate shop in Paris,
0:46.3	the Little Beach Street Bakery and most recently Summer Seaside Kitchen.
0:50.3	With Jenny, the spoken word artist Polar Bear,
0:53.3	aka Stephen Camden, playwright and novelist,
0:57.0	whose most recent fiction for young adults is called It's About Love,
1:00.7	which was also the subject of his Radio 4 documentary, Tough Love,
1:04.9	that asked why there are so few love stories aimed at teenage boys.
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