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🗓️ 26 May 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Column McCann on his novel TransAtlantic, which explores the relationship between Ireland and the USA, mental health and fiction, and more weird things people say in bookshops
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0:44.3 | Hello, today we wander into the furthest reaches of the human psyche, with more weird things customers say in bookshops. |
0:53.3 | Do you have this crime book? |
0:54.8 | It's called The Girl with the Dragon and the Baboon. |
0:57.3 | I need a really awful book to give to someone I hate. |
1:00.8 | Any recommendations? |
1:02.2 | I'd like to buy a book for my wife. |
1:04.4 | Sure. What sort of book? |
1:05.9 | I don't know. Something pink. |
1:09.5 | Women like pink stuff, right? |
1:11.6 | Pride and Prejudice was published a long time ago, right? |
1:14.7 | Yep. |
1:15.4 | I thought so. Colin Firth's looking really good for his age then. |
1:20.5 | Well, it makes you worry. There's plenty more where that came from later in the programme. |
1:25.7 | And with mental health affecting one in four people in the UK, |
1:29.7 | I'll be discussing whether fiction can help. But first an author whose stories irresistibly |
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