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Kate Bryan and Mark Steel

Art historian Kate Bryan and comedian Mark Steel talk about their favourite books, featuring titles by Olivia Laing, Alexei Sayle and Sarah Moss.

Art historian Kate Bryan and comedian Mark Steel talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books. Kate loves Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing, an inspiring collection of essays which make a case for why art matters. Mark is a big fan of Stalin Ate My 主播大秀work by Alexei Sayle, a comedic memoir about growing up in a Jewish atheist communist family in Liverpool. And Harriett puts forward Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, in which a present-day story converges with ancient rituals to provoke a discussion about how far we have come from the 鈥減rimitive minds鈥 of our ancestors.

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Tue 14 Feb 2023 16:30

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