Lord John Bird and Lucy Kellaway

Podcast: A Good Read · BBC Radio 4

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

Lively conversation around three book choices. Presenter Harriett Gilbert talks to two guests about books they love. A SEVERED HEAD by Iris Murdoch, chosen by Lucy Kellaway LITTLE BOY LOST by Marghanita Laski, chosen by Harriett Gilbert SPECIMEN DAYS by Walt Whitman, chosen by John Bird Lucy Kellaway, former Financial Times journalist turned secondary school teacher and founder of the charity Now Teach, chooses a slim novel by author-philosopher Iris Murdoch. A Severed Head (1961) centres on the marriage and affairs of Martin Lynch-Gibbon and his circle of friends and family. Lord Bird MBE...