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Books and Authors

Open Book: Taylor Jenkins Reid, Older Characters in Fiction, Baseball books

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Jenkins Reid talks about her novel Daisy Jones & The Six. Also we discuss the best older characters in fiction and Reading Clinic suggests books for someone on death row.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy.

0:05.4

My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

0:10.8

The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.

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

together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life,

0:35.0

check out BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:41.3

Music, radio podcasts. No, you're not listening to a Formula One special, and hopefully you don't need to have been a 70s wild child to recognize the famous bass line from the chain from the iconic album

1:12.1

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, the band that have inspired one of today's authors.

1:17.4

We'll also be exploring older characters in fiction later in the program.

1:21.2

Do they get fair representation or are they merely caricatured?

1:25.0

And we're checking into the Reading Clinic with recommendations

1:28.2

for death row reading from Benjamin Markovits. But first, Taylor Jenkins Reid, who started her

1:34.9

career as a casting assistant in Hollywood until Jennifer Aniston suggested she tried writing.

1:40.7

Her latest novel, Daisy Jones and The Six, cast light on a different variety of L.A. Stardom,

1:47.1

taking the form of a fictional biography of an invented rock band in the 1970s.

1:52.5

Just like their landmark album, Aurora, the book has been an immediate hit and is currently

1:58.0

being turned into a mini-series by Reese Witherspoon's production company.

2:02.2

A heady mix of fact and fiction, the novel charts, the meteoric rise, battles with addiction,

2:07.4

and turbulent off-stage romances of a group of musicians pulled apart and together by creative impulses.

2:14.5

Here's a taster.

2:15.9

Teddy said, just get into the studio, love. How hard is that?

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