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Mel Giedroyc at the Cheltenham Literature Festival

Mel Giedroyc introduces her favourite pieces of writing to an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. From Ronnie Barker to Jackie magazine to a poem about Lithuania.

Mel Giedroyc, presenter of The Great British Bake Off and R4 Extra's The 4 O'Clock Show, introduces her favourite pieces of writing to the audience at The Cheltenham Literature Festival. From things that make her laugh - like Ronnie Barker's wordplay and choice extracts from Jackie magazine, to those with a special meaning for her, such as a poem about a mouth-watering Lithuanian stew...

Readers Dave Mounfield and Susie Donkin
Producer Beth O'Dea

Pieces featured in the programme:
Dr Spooner in the Bookshop by Ronnie Barker
From All I Ever Wrote: The Complete Works by Ronnie Barker, Sidgwick & Jackson
First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton, Dragon Books
Can You Face Yourself from The Best of Jackie, Prion Books
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
Translation by Kenneth Mackenzie, Everyman's Library Dent
Cooking in a Bedsitter by Katharine Whitehorn, Virago
I, an Actor by Nicholas Craig (Nigel Planer and Christopher Douglas), Methuen.

28 minutes

Last on

Thu 15 Jun 2017 23:30

Pieces featured in the programme

Pieces featured in the programme: Dr Spooner in the Bookshop by Ronnie Barker From All I Ever Wrote: The Complete Works by Ronnie Barker, Sidgwick & Jackson First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton, Dragon Books Can You Face Yourself from The Best of Jackie, Prion Books Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz Translation by Kenneth Mackenzie, Everyman鈥檚 Library Dent Cooking in a Bedsitter by Katharine Whitehorn, Virago I, an Actor by Nicholas Craig (Nigel Planer and Christopher Douglas), Methuen

Broadcasts

  • Mon 21 Jan 2013 16:00
  • Thu 15 Jun 2017 23:30

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