A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time Together
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Old friends gather together on the coast in Australian writer Luke Horton’s Time Together, Kate and Cassie take a look. Plus, Jo Harkin’s The Pretender, set during the time of the Tudors' ascent it tells the story of a little-known real-life figure; and Laura Elvery’s Nightingale, a re-imagining of the life of Florence Nightingale.
BOOKS
Luke Horton, Time Together, Scribe
Jo Harkin, The Pretender, Bloomsbury Circus
Laura Elvery, Nightingale, UQP
GUESTS
Jane Caro, social commentator, activist, and writer. She has written thirteen books, including three set in the Tudor period, and two crime novels – The Mother and her latest, Lyrebird
Michael Cathcart, historian and broadcaster, and host of Radio National’s Stage Show
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Cecil Woodham Smith, Florence Nightingale
Sarah Wynn Williams, Careless People
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
Athol Fugard, Blood Knot
CREDITS
- Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
- Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer: Roi Huberman, Tim Jenkins, Micky Grossman
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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