Sarah Kendall

Season 3 Episode 6

 

Comedian Sarah Kendall joins Robin and Josie to talk about her upcoming Edinburgh show and Radio 4 series as well as bringing in a big bag of her favourite books.  There’s Jeffrey Eugenides, Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, Ben Moor, Marta Hillers and plenty of others.  Also Josie reads us her favourite poem.  Content warning – The following episode contains a discussion about sexual violence.

 

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Reading List

Sarah recommends:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

A Woman In Berlin by Marta Hillers

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Robin recommends:

Each of Us (And Other Things) by Ben Moor

Lint by Steve Aylett

Heart of the Original by Steve Aylett

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Jerusalem by Alan Moore

The Outsider by Albert Camus

Dirt Music by Tim Winton

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Josie recommends:

Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

More Trees to Climb by Ben Moor

Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray

Every Man Will Shout: Anthology of Modern Verse by Roger Mansfield and Isobel Armstrong

Waiting by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The Man With the Gallow Eyes by Billy Childish

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