Vaseem Khan and Lucy Winkett
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What does 'home' mean? The three book choices today reflect on what home means to different people. The crime writer Vaseem Khan chooses Deborah Moggach's much loved novel The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel that sees a group of elderly English people going to live in a retirement home in India. As well as many hilarious misadventures the book also depicts the stark reality of getting old. Reverend Lucy Winkett of St James Church Picadilly in London chooses The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak the love story beween a Greek Cypriot man and a Turkish Cypriot woman in a country fractured by division in 1974. The story takes place mainly in contemporary London and examines the personal impact of displacement from one's homeland. And that's a theme that carried on in Harriett's choice which is We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo about a young girl who leaves her troubled homeland of Zimbabwe for a new life in America and finds herself better off materially but lacking the spiritual comfort of her home country.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
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| 0:17.5 | we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database. |
| 0:22.8 | They did know that I was different. |
| 0:25.7 | You had kids together. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.3 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:38.9 | Hello, it's lovely to be back, and with me today the writer Vasim Khan, |
| 0:44.1 | author of two award-winning series of crime novels set in India, |
| 0:47.5 | at which the most recent Death of a Lesser God came out this August. |
| 0:51.6 | Vasim was recently elected chair of the Crime Writers Association. |
| 0:56.1 | With him is the rector of St James's Church Piccadilly in London, Lucy Winkett, |
| 1:00.6 | one of the first women ordained a priest in the Church of England and a regular contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day. |
| 1:08.3 | Vasim Khan, would you start us off? What have you chosen as a good read? Well, first of all, |
| 1:13.2 | thank you so much for inviting me on. So the read that I've chosen is called the Best Exotic |
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