Dame Katherine Grainger

Britain's most decorated female Olympian, rower Katherine Grainger, now Chair of UK Sport, is also a huge book lover. She shares the pieces of writing that have been important to her throughout her life with the audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. To Kill a Mockingbird, Mary Stuart, Shane, speeches by Nora Ephron and Theodore Roosevelt and a classic story by Julia Donaldson add up to an eclectic mix, read by Henry Goodman and Hattie Morahan.
Producer Beth O'Dea.