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🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Books worth reading chosen by actor John Gordon Sinclair and singer Kerry Ellis
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0:43.7 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
0:46.7 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
0:49.4 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
0:51.5 | We don't always see eye to eye, |
0:52.9 | but I hope you'll find some great reading |
0:54.6 | suggestions here. Hello, with me today two actors. First, John Gordon Sinclair, who was a teenager |
1:03.2 | shot to fame in Gregory's Girl and has since worked across film and TV and as an Olivier |
1:08.7 | award-winning stage actor. For the last seven years, he's also been writing crime fiction, |
1:13.6 | his novels including Blood Whispers and, most recently, Walk in Silence. |
1:19.1 | With John is Kerry Ellis, leading lady of musicals in the West End and on Broadway. |
1:24.3 | She's starred in Wicked, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, and We Will Rock You |
1:28.7 | Among Many Others, and her most recent album with Brian May is Golden Days. Next year, Kerry |
1:34.9 | tours with the show Queen Machine Symphonic. John Gordon Sinclair, would you start us off |
1:42.3 | with your choice of a good read? |
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