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3 Author’s Desert Island Discs
Authors often feature on Desert Island Discs. Here are my favourite author-episodes.
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Bad Blood
“The way Theranos is operating is like trying to build a bus while you’re driving the bus.”
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Notes To Self
“The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis.”
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The House of Illustration
“As an illustrator you need to understand the human body – but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you’ve seen and what you imagine.” – Quentin Blake
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Classic Scrapes
“When I was a baby, I urinated in my own mouth. […] The reason I’m telling you this is so that, straight out the gate, you know who I am and where I came from. This is how my life began and more or less how it continued for many, many years. This book is…
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Reviews of both the script and the performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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A Right Royal Face-Off
A satire of one of England’s greatest portrait painters, Thomas Gainsborough.
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Never Greener
“We spend most of our lives wishing we were somewhere else or someone else, or looking forward or harping back. Always thinking the grass is greener on the other side. But it never is. It’s still grass. Just a different patch of it, that’s all.”
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Wales Lonely Planet Guide
I’ve always found that a good old Lonely Planet guide really fills out the gaps that a lot of online platforms have, especially when it comes to looking for outdoor activities and very specific areas.
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