The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is a guide to spiritual enlightenment and preaches the importance of being in the moment. Alex George has found it an invaluable guide when he has suffered periods of anxiety and poor mental health. Ella Al-Shamahi chooses a first hand account of being imprisoned in Yemen by Abdulkader Al-Guneid, a medical doctor taken from his home and locked up for over a year for posting his political views about the conflict in Yemen on social media. She says Prison Time in Sana'a is a testament to inner strength as well as a guide to understanding a very complex if forgotten war.
Harriett's choice is the Mermaid of Black Conch - a novel about the capture of a sea woman by white fishermen on a fictional Caribbean island. Little Mermaid it is not. Monique Roffey's mermaid has bad teeth and is full of sea lice.Producer: Maggie Ayre
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Folge vom 29.06.2022Dr Alex George and Ella Al-Shamahi
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Folge vom 21.06.2022Rob Newman & Sarfraz ManzoorComedian Rob Newman and writer Sarfraz Manzoor talk about favourite books. Rob loves John Berger's novel To the Wedding, but not everyone finds it hugely romantic. Sarfraz has chosen Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume 1. Thus far, there has been no Volume 2. Harriett enjoys Eric Ambler's The Mask of Dimitrious, a thriller which criss-crosses pre-war Europe.Producer Sally Heaven
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Folge vom 14.06.2022Dreda Say Mitchell & Emma GannonNovelist Dreda Say Mitchell and the writer and podcaster Emma Gannon talk about their favourite books with Harriett. Dreda chooses An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole, a romance set during the American Civil War. Emma has gone for the mouth watering memoir Dinner with Edward by Isabel Vincent, and Harriett transports us to a very wet Scottish holiday in Sarah Moss' Summerwater. Producer Sally Heaven
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Folge vom 07.06.2022Omid Djalili and Nikita LalwaniA novel about compassion set against the backdrop of the Aberfan disaster is comedian and actor Omid Djalili's choice of a good read. A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe is a novel about a young man who becomes an embalmer and who goes straight from his graduation ceremony to help at the site of the tragedy in Aberfan to take care of the deceased's bodies. That experience is to shape the rest of his life and his relationships with his mother and wife as well as an early schoolfriend are all affected. Nikita Lalwani chooses a quirky book of short stories by Charles Yu called Third Class Superhero - the message of which seems to be it's OK to be mediocre. Harriett Gilbert's choice is Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter recently made into a film starring Olivia Coleman. It lays bare the complexities of motherhood and the mixed feelings it evokes.Producer: Maggie Ayre for BBC Audio Bristol