Darren Richman (21st November 2020)

Journalist, film-maker and sorta-biographer Darren Richman joins Book Club to talk comedy, writing partnerships and Pat Sharp, and we meander (at least partly drawn by Leonard Cohen and Jarvis Cocker) into a strangely life-affirming place where comedy and tragedy meet, as Darren describes his next writing project. (DISCLAIMER: My love for Pat Sharp in his Capital Radio years was sincere and completely non-ironic and Darren copes with it brilliantly.)

Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks
Bad Cover Version by Pulp
Young at Heart by Frank Sinatra
Yesterday by The Beatles
Superstition by Stevie Wonder
Keep Me in Your Heart by Warren Zevon
Hard to Explain by The Strokes
Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen
Wildflowers by Tom Petty
Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys
Sound and Vision by David Bowie
Hung Up by Madonna

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James Cook (14th November 2020)

Writer and musician James Cook discusses his tender and moving memoir about connecting with his autistic daughter through music, including his own experiences with 90s band Flamingoes. Cloudbusting - Kate Bush Rebel Rebel - David Bowie Life’s What...

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Sam Mills (28th November 2020)

Sam Mills talks about her beautiful and tender memoir, The Fragments of My Father; about love, loss and Leonard Woolf; about the power and cost of caring; about writing, Will Self and setting up an independent press. We get a bit cross. We laugh. We...

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Chiltern Voice Book Club is a weekly radio show in which Antonia Honeywell talks books, writing reading and publishing with a varied range of brilliant writers.

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