Laura Purcell, Communist Funeral Confession, Nile Rodgers
Laura Purcell joins Simon for The Radio 2 Book Club to discuss The Silent Companions, including hearing listener reviews. Nile Rodgers chats ahead of his 'In Concert' with Chic.
Author Laura Purcell joins Simon for The Radio 2 Book Club to discuss The Silent Companions. We'll also hear from our listener reviewers and unleash a brand new Confession. Plus Nile Rodgers chats ahead of his 'In Concert' with Chic.
Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge.
With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a 200-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure - a Silent Companion - that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself...
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Music Played
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Stevie Wonder
Part-Time Lover
- Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
- Motown.
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Roy Orbison & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
I Drove All Night (feat. Ward Thomas)
- A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Legacy Recordings.
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Bee Gees
You Should Be Dancing
- Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
- Polydor.
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Chic
Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
- Golden Age Of Black Music (1977-88).
- Atlantic.
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David Bowie
Let's Dance
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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Morrissey
Spent The Day In Bed
- Low In High School.
- BMG.
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The Trammps
Disco Inferno
- NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Earth, Wind & Fire
Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)
- The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
- Virgin.
- 2.
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Stereophonics
Caught By The Wind
- (CD Single).
- Parlophone.
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Frantique
Strut Your Funky Stuff
- The Greatest Hits Of Philadelphia.
- Music Club.
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Leading Ladies
One Night Only
- Songs From The Stage.
- EastWest.
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Shannon
Let The Music Play
- The Greatest 80's Soul W/Ender (Va).
- Warner Strategic Market.
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George Harrison
Got My Mind Set on You
- George Harrison - Cloud Nine.
- Dark Horse.
- 1.
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Elkie Brooks
Rising Cost Of Love
- Pearls: The Very Best Of Elkie Brooks.
- A&M.
Broadcast
- Mon 30 Oct 2017 17:05Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2