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.
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Mel Giedroyc on Radio 4 Extra
This week her family show features Dick and Dom and Jaqueline Wilson's story Dustbin Baby.
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The Two Ronnies - Dr Spooner in the Bookshop
Duration: 03:34
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- Mon 21 Jan 2013 16:00±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Thu 15 Jun 2017 23:30±«Óãtv Radio 4
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