About this episode

The episode features a rerun of a classic summer reading discussion with book recommendations from 2023.

Over here in the UK, we are well and truly into summer: some of us have World Cup fever, and others... have not. To celebrate the continuing balm, we are rerunning one of our classic summer reading episodes from 2023, where John, Andy and Nicky choose six books, old and new: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker; Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale; The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor; Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry; A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀; and The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: John, Andy, Nicky

Topics covered

• summer reading
• book recommendations
• literature
• memoirs
• fiction
• UK culture

Keywords

• summer reading
• book recommendations
• O Caledonia
• The KLF
• memoirs
• fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: O Caledonia, Sheep’s Clothing, The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time, Old God’s Time, A Spell of Good Things, The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds

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