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With Simon Garfield

Simon Garfield joins Lauren to talk about his newest project, A Notable Woman, a collection of extracts from the diaries of Jean Lucey Pratt written between 1925 and 1985.

Simon Garfield joins Lauren to talk about his newest project, A Notable Woman.

Compiled and edited by Garfield, A Notable Woman is a collection of extracts from the diaries of one Jean Lucey Pratt. In Simon's words, 'She wasn't famous, and she wasn't particularly remarkable, but she did one remarkable thing: in April 1925, at the age of 15, she began writing a journal, and she didn't put down her pen for sixty years. She produced well over a million words, and no one in her family or large circle of friends had an inkling until the end.' This volume details an ongoing battle with men, work and self-doubt, and ends up detailing nothing short of life itself.

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Mon 30 Nov 201510:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Beastie Boys

    Intergalactic

    • Grand Royal.

  • Field Music

    The Noisy Days Are Over

    • Memphis Industries.

  • Naytronix

    Shadow

    • City Slang.

  • Justice vs Simian

    We Are Your Friends

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Ten Records.

  • Wire

    Map Ref. 41°N 93°W

    • Harvest.

  • Sleaford Mods

    Silly Me

    • Harbinger Sounds.

  • Quilt

    Eliot St.

    • Mexican Summer.

  • Radiohead

    Climbing Up The Walls

    • OK COMPUTER.
    • PARLOPHONE.
    • 13.

  • Joe Goddard

    Gabriel (feat. Valentina)

    • Greco-Roman.

  • Foals

    Give It All

    • Warners.

  • Four Tet

    Smile Around The Face

  • Richie Havens

    Going Back To My Roots

  • Faithless

    Salva Mea

  • The Prodigy vs Public Enemy & Manfred Mann

    Shut 'Em Up

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • King Bee

    Back By Dope Demand

    • 1st Bass.

  • Ghostpoet

    Be Right Back, Moving House (ft. Paul Smith)

    • PIAS.

  • The Ronettes

    Do I Love You?

    • Sony Music.

  • The Beatles

    She Said She Said

    • Parlophone.

  • Daft Punk

    Robot Rock

    • (CD Single).
    • VIRGIN.

  • FEWS

    The Zoo

    • PIAS.

  • Gruff Rhys

    Candylion

    • Candylion.
    • Rough Trade Records.

  • The Migrant

    Silence

    • Rockpie.

  • The Capitols

    Cool Jerk

    • Warner Bros..

  • Missy Elliott

    WTF (Where They From) (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • Atlantic.

  • Joon Moon

    Help Me

    • Kwaidan Records.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Can't Keep Checking My Phone

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • On Dead Waves

    Blackbird

    • Mute.

  • Fatback

    (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop

    • KNIGHT.

  • S’Express

    Theme From S-Express

    • NUMBER ONES OF DANCE.
    • Telstar.

  • Jamie Woon & Willy Mason

    Celebration

    • Polydor.

  • C Duncan

    For (Autumn Rebuild)

    • Fatcat Records.

  • Morrissey

    Everyday Is Like Sunday

    • MIS MASTER'S VOICE.

  • Tracey Thorn

    The Book Of Love

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Blue Bucket Of Gold

    • ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS.

  • Stereolab

    Ping Pong

    • Polygram TV.

  • jennylee

    Riot

  • Charles Wright & Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

    Express Yourself

    • WSM.

  • Kurt Vile

    Dust Bunnies

    • Matador Records.

  • YAST

    I Don't Think She Knows

  • LoneLady

    Silvering

    • Warp.

  • Mini Mansions

    Double Visions

    • fiction.

  • Dracula Legs

    Bulldozer

  • Lanterns on the Lake

    Faultlines

    • Bella Union.

Broadcast

  • Mon 30 Nov 201510:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music