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A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
Alex Clark talks to the queen of crime Val McDermid.
46:30
A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
46:40
A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
47:07
British Country Life: Heaven Or Hell?
01:37
"This book presented another kind of representation"
46:48
Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
30:32
A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
02:00
"Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
03:33
"I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
01:13
"I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
46:02
The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
02:17
"I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
02:15
"I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
40:31
New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
03:39
"How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
42:41
How To Be A Man
46:30
A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
01:07
"The library was my salvation"
02:06
"It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
02:38
"It was an all-consuming masculinity"
01:55
“It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
01:45
“Both me and him were in tears”
02:06
“Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
02:37
"It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
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A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
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A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
British Country Life: Heaven Or Hell?
Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
How To Be A Man
Is It Time To Bin The Books On Parenting?
New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
The Secrets Of Good Sex
The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
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