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Ade Adepitan and Dominic Holland

Harriett Gilbert talks to Paralympian Ade Adepitan and comedian Dominic Holland about favourite books, including In Cold Blood, The Snapper, and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.

Paralympian Ade Adepitan and comedian Dominic Holland talk books with Harriett Gilbert. Books under discussion are: Sue Townsend's delicious tale of teenage angst, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's 'non-fiction novel' about the murders of four family members in a Kansas farmhouse in 1959 and Roddy Doyle's The Snapper, a comic portrayal of an unplanned pregnancy. Harriett and her two guests talk about the both the comedy and the poignancy to be found in novels about a working class Dublin family and a pompous teenager in 1980s Ashby de-la-Zouch. They debate the mind and motives of a psychopath and Truman Capote's views on the death penalty.
Producer Sally Heaven.

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25 minutes

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Tue 29 Jul 2014 16:30

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Harriett Gilbert
Interviewed Guest Ade Adepitan
Interviewed Guest Dominic Holland
Producer Sally Heaven

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  • Tue 29 Jul 2014 16:30

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