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A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
Sir Lenny Henry discusses the books that have made him with Kit de Waal.
- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
- "The library was my salvation"
- A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
- British Country Life: Heaven Or Hell?
- 鈥淚t wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out鈥
- "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
- "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
- 鈥淏oth me and him were in tears鈥
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
- How To Be A Man
- "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
- "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
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- British Country Life: Heaven Or Hell?
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- How To Be A Man
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- New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
- The Secrets Of Good Sex
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