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The Radio 2 Book Club: with Matt Haig, R1 Roadshow Confession, Tupping Sheep

Author Matt Haig joins Simon for the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss his new novel, How To Stop Time. Plus listener reviewers and a brand new Confession is unleashed.

The latest Radio 2 Book Club choice is How To Stop Time by Matt Haig. Matt will join Simon in the studio to talk about the book and hear from our listener reviewers about what they thought. We'll also discuss his previous books and career.

How To Stop Time
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life.
Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them first-hand. He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom must not do is fall in love.
How to Stop Time is a wild and bittersweet story about losing and finding yourself, about the certainty of change and about the lifetimes it can take to really learn how to live.

We'll also unleash a brand new Confession, play your oldie suggestions and have the latest travel and sport with Matt and Bobbie.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Mon 2 Oct 2017 17:05
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.

  • Paloma Faith

    Crybaby

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Alphaville

    Forever Young

    • Forever Young.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Neneh Cherry

    Manchild

    • Woman II (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Shania Twain

    Swingin' With My Eyes Closed

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • The Beatles

    She Loves You

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 003.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Not Fade Away

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.

  • Maroon 5

    What Lovers Do (feat. SZA)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Cliff Richard & The Shadows

    The Young Ones

    • Cliff Richard - 40 Golden Greats.
    • EMI.

  • Anne-Marie

    Heavy

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Kate Bush

    The Man With The Child In His Eyes

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • The Animals

    Don't Bring Me Down

    • Very Best Of Eric Burden & The Animal.
    • Spectrum.

  • U2

    You're The Best Thing About Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Mr Jukes

    Grant Green (feat. Charles Bradley)

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Oct 2017 17:05
    大象传媒 Radio 2