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The Radio 2 Book Club with Ana Johns

Ana Johns joins Jo for the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss her debut novel The Woman In The White Kimono. Plus there is a story of love from Gary Lightbody in A Certain Romance.

Ana Johns joins Jo for the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss her novel The Woman In The White Kimono.

Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man. America, present day. Tori Kovac, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation—one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family and herself.

Ana Johns studied broadcast journalism and worked over twenty-years in the creative arts field, as both a creative director and business owner before turning her hand to fiction. This is her debut novel.

Jo will also have another story of a special guest's Certain Romance - about a song that reminds them of falling in or out of love. This time it's the turn of Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol.

Plus Jo handpicks her favourite new music from all genres of the musical spectrum and quality vintage songs too. And whether you’re picking up or dropping off, Jo provides the soundtrack for the Taxi Service.

1 hour, 57 minutes

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Mon 19 Aug 2019 19:00
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Music Played

  • Groove Armada

    I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Remix) (feat. Gram’ma Funk)

    • Fatboy Slim - The Greatest Hits (Why Try Harder).
    • Skint.

  • Keane

    Love Too Much

    • Cause & Effect.
    • Island.

  • Charli xcx & Rahim Redcar

    Gone

    • Asylum Records.

  • Vampire Weekend

    Stranger

    • Father Of The Bride.
    • Columbia.

  • Dermot Kennedy

    Outnumbered

  • Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

    The Message

  • Swae Lee & Drake

    Won't Be Late

    • Won't Be Late.
    • Eardruma Records/Interscope Records.
    • 1.

  • No Doubt

    Just A Girl

    • The Singles 1992-2003.
    • Interscope.

  • Self Esteem

    In Time

    • Compliments Please.
    • Fiction.
    • 9.

  • Weezer

    Island In The Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.

  • Gladys Knight & the Pips

    Midnight Train To Georgia

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1976.
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 9.

  • Billie Eilish

    bad guy

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 103 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

  • Stereophonics

    Fly Like An Eagle

    • Kind.
    • Parlophone.

  • Hole

    Celebrity Skin

    • GEFFEN.

  • Jordan Rakei

    Rolling Into One

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Mary Mary

    Shackles (Praise You)

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Baxter Dury

    Miami

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Chrissie Hynde

    How Glad I Am

    • Valve Bone Woe.
    • BMG.

  • Peaches

    Operate

  • HAIM

    Summer Girl

    • Summer Girl.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 1.

  • Boney M.

    Daddy Cool

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Aine

    Dislocated

    • CD Single.
    • Parlophone.

  • LCD Soundsystem

    Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DFA.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Monster

    • Taller.
    • Island.

  • Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

    Lost Weekend

    • Lloyd Cole - The Collection.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Ronettes

    Be My Baby

    • The Best Of The Ronettes.
    • Phil Spector Int.

Broadcast

  • Mon 19 Aug 2019 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2