Samira Ahmed
Book Shambles
The journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed joins Robin and Josie this week to talk about politics, the joy of library books, the joy of putting in brand new book shelves and some of her favourite books. Also Robin is annoyed Billy Wilder wasn’t forced to make more films.
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Reading List
Samira recommends:
Elidor by Alan Garner
The West End Front by Matthew Sweet
Where Shall We Run To? by Alan Garner
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Soul Food by Sheila Ferguson
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
Robin recommends:
The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula Le Guin
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Heroic Failure by Fintan O’Toole
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon
Josie recommends:
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson by Douglas Murphy
Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra
How To Lose a Country by Ice Temelkuran
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