What to read in lockdown
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The Times
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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With reading on the rise under the lockdown, the Times Literary Supplement editor Stig Abell suggests three books for a little escapism during these uncertain times.
Guest: Stig Abell
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| 0:00.0 | We're becoming a nation of book readers. |
| 0:05.0 | Now is a time for comfort reading, |
| 0:07.4 | finding the books that we love and reimersing ourselves in them. |
| 0:11.7 | Escapism, no longer a luxury, but a psychic necessity. |
| 0:19.0 | If the world around us is painfully over familiar because we're seeing the same patch of sky and the same |
| 0:24.8 | walls every day. I think the virtue of reading is to transport us into a sort of a new world |
| 0:31.2 | entirely. You're listening to stories of our times. I'm David |
| 0:35.2 | Ronovich. Today, what to read in lockdown. We wonder the virtual corridors of the Times, Sunday Times and the TLS for answers. May I have your attention please, you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to |
| 1:06.1 | walk home in the rain again. |
| 1:10.0 | Trains now on Uber. |
| 1:11.6 | T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 1:15.0 | My am Stiegable. I'm the editor of the TLS Times Literary Supplement. |
| 1:27.0 | Stig has picked his top three books to get him and you through lockdown. |
| 1:32.0 | We'll come to them in just a moment. |
| 1:34.0 | So I work not that far away from you when we were living in the same building, |
| 1:38.0 | David, but now of course we all work in a small part of our homes. |
| 1:42.0 | And which part of our homes. |
| 1:43.0 | And which part of the home are you working from at the moment? |
| 1:45.0 | Well, I don't have an office, and I have three children, |
| 1:48.0 | one of whom is under two years old. |
| 1:50.0 | So I am basically hiding out like a criminal in my bedroom. I don't have a desk I'm using |
| 1:56.5 | my wife's makeup table. So if you imagine me if you will not only that the door is |
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