Jonathan Coe/Gemma Cairney
Harriett Gilbert is joined by comic novelist Jonathan Coe and Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney to recommend favourite books.
Harriett Gilbert is joined by comic novelist Jonathan Coe and Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney to recommend favourite books.
Jonathan's choice is the first in a tragi-comic epic, a semi-autobiographical novel by the late David Nobbs, creator of 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'.
Gemma chooses a novel by Laura Dockrill, a vividly imagined story of mermaids and pirates, and Harriett dusts off a novel from the 1940s by Nevil Shute. Its subject matter is sharply topical, suddenly: an elderly man leads a growing group of refugee children across Europe, attempting to avoid the Nazi invaders.
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery
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