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11/05/2010

Andrew Collins sits in for Nemone and talks to author and actress Emma Kennedy about her book The Tent, the Bucket and Me.

Emma Kennedy joins Andrew Collins to talk about her book "The Tent, The Bucket and Me". This is the bestselling, stunning narrative non-fiction debut from award winning writer and actress Emma Kennedy, a hilarious Seventies childhood memoir of wet, windy and utterly disastrous family camping trips.
There was a time when package holidays and shuttle buses were merely glints in the holidaymaker's eye; a time when going on holiday meant packing up the tent, squeezing the deck chairs and sleeping bags into the boot of a small, mechanically unsound car and setting off around the United Kingdom in search of serene surroundings and well-deserved relaxation. For the Seventies child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. But despite a brave new world of Casio hand-held calculators and digital watches, the Kennedy family always seemed to bear the brunt of the holiday Gods' cruel sense of humour.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 11 May 2010 13:00

Music Played

  • Supergrass

    Pumping On Your Stereo

    • Parlophone.
  • Vampire Weekend

    Holiday

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    • XL.
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  • Kasabian

    Fire

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.
  • The Chemical Brothers

    Swoon

    • PARLOPHONE.
  • Japan

    Quiet Life

    • The Very Best Of.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Chapel Club

    Five Trees

    • CD SINGLE.
    • A&M.
    • 1.
  • Althea & Donna

    Uptown Top Ranking

    • UPTOWN TOP RANKING.
    • Lightning.
  • Flowered Up

    Take It

    • Polygram Tv.
  • Band of Horses

    Compliments

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.
  • U2

    An Cat Dubh

  • 蚕鈥怲颈辫

    Vivrant Thing

    • Vivrant Thing.
    • Arista.
  • The Drums

    Forever And Ever Amen

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    • Moshi Moshi / Island.
    • 1.
  • David Kitt

    Up To You

    • Rough Trade.
  • Gorillaz

    Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul)

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.
  • The Bonzo Dog Band

    Tent (Radio 1 Session, 29 Jul 1969)

  • John Denver

    Take Me Home Country Roads

    • A Song's Best Friend: Very Best Of.
    • RCA/BMG.
  • Laura Marling

    Rambling Man

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    • VIRGIN.
    • 1.
  • Quasi

    Bye Bye Blackbird

    • Domino.
    • 1.
  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea

    • IMP Records.
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    Girl I Love You

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    • Virgin.
    • 1.
  • Panda Bear

    Take Pills

  • Prince

    Alphabet St.

    • Paisley Park/Warner Bros.
  • School of Seven Bells

    Babelonia

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  • M.I.A.

    Born Free

    • Born Free Single.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 1.
  • Grace Jones

    Pull Up To The Bumper

    • Island.
  • Delphic

    Counterpoint

    • Chimeric.
  • Led Zeppelin

    Good Times Bad Times

    • Atlantic.
  • Yasiin Bey

    History (feat. Talib Kweli)

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    • Downtown Music / Co-operative.
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  • 厂鈥椭虫辫谤别蝉蝉

    Theme From S-Express

    • NUMBER ONES OF DANCE.
    • Telstar.
  • Broken Social Scene

    Forced To Love

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    • CITY SLANG.
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  • Foals - Blue Blood

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Everyday People

    • Nectar.
  • Roots Manuva

    Again & Again

  • The Strange Boys

    Night Might

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    • Rough Trade.
    • 1.
  • The Farm

    Stepping Stone

    • Produce.
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Broadcast

  • Tue 11 May 2010 13:00