Deborah Frances-White
Season 7, Episode 18Our guest this week is comedian, writer and host of The Guilty Feminist, Deborah Frances-White. She chats with Robin and Josie about her time as a Jehovah’s Witness, discovering improv and some of her favourite books including work by Virginia Woolf, George Orwell and Erica Jong.
This is the last episode of the current series as Josie heads off on maternity leave. We’ve still got lots of episodes and specials to come though including recordings of lots of our recent live shows with guests including Dean Burnett, Alan Moore and Lucie Green.
Tickets are still available for our live show on June 11 with guests Adam Buxton and Hannah Fry, as well as Space Shambles with Robin, Chris Hadfield, Stewart Lee and others on June 15.
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Reading List
Deborah recommends:
Storm by Tim Minchin
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
1984 by George Orwell
Impro by Keith Johnstone
Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
The Essays of Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Wild Other by Clover Stroud
My Country: A Syrian Memoir by Kasseem Eid
Robin recommends:
The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White
Off the Mic by Deborah Frances-White
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
Josie recommends:
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
