Robert Forster
Season 6, Episode 20
Founder of the iconic group The Go Betweens, Robert Forster, joins Robin and Josie this week to talk about his new book Grant and I. There’s also chat of the work of Alan Bennett, Jack Kerouac and TS Elliot. And then Josie discovers Robert is a fan of The Neapolitan Novels…
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Reading List
Robert recommends:
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
James Joyce by Robert Ellmann
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Keeping On, Keeping On by Alan Bennett
Lee, Myself and I by Wyndham Wallace
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Robin recommends:
Grant and I by Robert Forster
Some British Birds by Edwyn Collins
The Last London by Iain Sinclair
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
American Smoke by Iain Sinclair
The Smiths: All Men Have Secrets by Tom Gallagher, Mike Campbell & Murdo Gillies
Josie recommends:
The Neapolitan Novels by Elana Ferrante
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Don’t Read This Book If You’re Stupid by Tibor Fischer
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