A Good Read

Poppy Jay and Catherine Johnson


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The host of the Brown Girls Do It Too podcast Poppy Jay and the writer of Mamma Mia Catherine Johnson join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books. They talk about moggies, a wrestling princess and grief...

Catherine chooses George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, Harriett goes for Doris Lessing's On Cats and Poppy tells us why Judy Corbalis' children's book The Wrestling Princess still stands as her favourite of all time.

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Caitlin Hobbs

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A Good ReadBy BBC Radio 4

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