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Books and Authors

Nemone Metaxas and Raymond Antrobus

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nemone Metaxas and Raymond Antrobus talk favourite books with presenter Harriett Gilbert.

Transcript

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0:05.4

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0:10.8

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0:17.5

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

0:22.4

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

0:28.3

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0:35.0

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0:41.2

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:46.7

Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,

0:51.1

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

0:54.2

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. Hello, today from Dolly Alderton, an internet dating in the 2010s,

1:01.7

via France under Nazi occupation, to the still incendiary sparks from a house fire in 1980's

1:07.7

New Cross. With me to introduce their goodread,

1:14.1

our first, the DJ and radio and TV presenter, Nimone,

1:19.0

host most famously of Nimone's Electric Ladyland on BBC 6 Music.

1:23.4

With her, the award-winning poet and educator Raymond Antrebus,

1:27.5

whose most recent collection, The Perseverance, came out last year.

1:31.2

Nimone, would you start? What's your choice of good read?

1:38.9

Well, my choice is a book that I picked up this summer that following, I've been studying psychotherapy for the last, God knows how many months, and I wanted something light.

1:43.6

And I'd seen this yellow book on the...

1:45.4

Everybody was reading it on every carriage of the tube at one point a few years ago.

1:48.9

I think I'm a bit late to the party.

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