A Good Read: Naomi Alderman and Abi Dare
Books and Authors
BBC
4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Power author Naomi Alderman, and Nigerian writer Abi Dare discuss favourite books. Naomi chooses Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher, a series of hilarious letters written by a beleaguered academic. Abi champions A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini's tale of two women in Taliban governed Afghanistan and Harriett recommends James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, two immensely powerful essays.
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan. |
| 0:21.6 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Alex Fondunzelman. |
| 0:26.6 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:28.6 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello, you like books, we like books. |
| 0:40.3 | And we're each going to recommend one we like in particular. |
| 0:43.3 | It's possible that three of us have very different tastes, of course, let's see. |
| 0:47.3 | With me today are two authors. |
| 0:49.3 | Naomi Alderman's novels include The Power, |
| 0:52.3 | winner of the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction, |
| 0:55.1 | and more recently The Future, now out in paperback. |
| 0:58.5 | Naomi is also a video games designer, her work including the smartphone exercise adventure game, |
| 1:04.4 | Zombies Run. |
| 1:06.3 | Here with her is the Nigerian author Abidare, whose debut novel The Girl with the Louding Voice |
| 1:11.4 | was a New York Times and international bestseller and a Radio 2 book club read. |
| 1:16.8 | The sequel, and So I Roar, was published just this summer. |
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