Hello and welcome sentimental garbage the podcast where we talk about the

chick live that made us who we are. My name is Canada Donohue and I'm a writer

and a half-priced duck on Christmas Eve. Joining me is a

award-winning author and the youngest gaffer the Newcastle bugyards has ever

seen Millie Johnson. I like to do a themed intro hello Millie

Hello Millie!

Hello!

Hello!

I've never been introduces that before.

Anything that says the youngest that is associated with my name sort of gets my vote.

I don't get what it is.

22 years old and already a gaffer, something...

Something I never understood as even a job before I started reading this book but now when

John became Gaffer at 22 I was like my God this man yes he's quite a piece isn't he just think oh yes. So today we're talking

about the 15 streets by Catherine Cookson a book that you've chosen and I've just read for the first time and I loved it and I'd love to know why you chose it and why you love it

I've always been a fan of Catherine Cookson for many years and it was between this and the

Malon streak. I love the Malon streak. It was but this one I think the background to the book

because my I used to have littlese who used to come down and stay and they

used to bring their old Catherine Cooksons and I used to load them with my Agatha Christes. And one day they said this is the one you need to read and it was the 15

streets. Oh this was the best thing in sliced bread out you know and and so I read this 15 streets and it's one of her earlier works and I absolutely saw where they were coming from and even though I've read I think I've read over the years every single book that

Catherine Cookson has ever written.

This one will, it's, yeah, but I loved her, you know, and when you kind of get into a groove of a novelist and this is going on, you know, I was a teenager when I first started, so it's, you know,

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