Liam Williams and Kate Stables
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Three strange, fantastical novels, all very different, are the book choices for this week.
Liam Williams is perhaps best-known for the BBC series 'Ladhood'. He picks 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville, a dark tale about the monotony of office work and people who quietly buck the system. The musician Kate Stables AKA This is the Kit is a self-confessed huge fan of Ursula K. Le Guin, and she chooses 'The Word for World is Forest' to share with Liam and Harriett. It's a book which draws heavily on the Vietnam War to comment on the nature of humanity. Harriett's pick is Requiem by Antonio Tabucchi, a tale of unexpected encounters on the streets of Lisbon, as the narrator goes in search of a lost love.
Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Toby Field
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| 0:33.1 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:35.1 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, 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. |
| 0:48.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, today, three strange, fantastical novels, each very different. |
| 0:57.9 | With me to introduce their good read are first, the stand-up writer and actor Liam Williams, |
| 1:02.8 | one third of sketched troop Sheeps, and perhaps best known for his comedy series Ladd Hood, |
| 1:08.0 | which started life on Radio 4, then morphed into a BBC TV show, |
| 1:12.2 | of which series 3 will be on our screens next year. |
| 1:15.6 | With Liam is the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Kate Stables, aka This Is the Kit. |
| 1:21.5 | Kate's band also called This Is The Kit has now released five albums, including |
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