A Good Read - Laurie Anderson & Stuart Maconie
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American avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and radio DJ and writer Stuart Maconie talk about favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
Laurie chooses Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Stuart picks Sleep No More: Railway, Canal and Other Stories of the Supernatural by L.T.C. Rolt, one of the men who saved Britain's inland waterways, and Harriett introduces them to Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever: the first book on A Good Read to have been "written" by a chimpanzee.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Sleep No More by LTC Rolt
Publisher: The History Press
Me Cheetah: The Autobiography by James Lever
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Producer: Beth O'Dea
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.
Published on Tuesday, 30th June 2020.
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