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1. BEGINNINGS with David Nicholls, Michael Palin and Tomi Adeyemi

1. BEGINNINGS with David Nicholls, Michael Palin and Tomi Adeyemi

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In this first episode we get to meet hosts Will Rycroft, Holly
Davies and Dan Bird as they talk with bestselling author and
screenwriter David Nicholls about their beginnings with books.
Nicholls also shares his experiences as actor which feed directly
into his new novel, Sweet Sorrow, which charts one life-changing
summer as Charlie meets Fran during rehearsals for Romeo and
Juliet and the two experience the transformative power of first
love. Nicholls also speaks about his BAFTA Award-winning
adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels for TV.

There’s also the chance to hear from Michael Palin as he talks
about the fear and excitement that attends to the beginning of
almost any enterprise, whether that be a journey, a new TV
programme or sitting down to write fresh comedy. His latest book,
Erebus, tells the story of HMS Erebus, the famous exploring
vessel which went missing in the Arctic and whose wreck was
recently discovered.

We also hear from Tomi Adeyemi’s event to launch her Waterstones
Children’s Book Prize Older Fiction category-winning YA novel,
Children of Blood and Bone. She shares a brilliant story about a
young girl jumping to the head of the signing queue to
demonstrate the importance of representation in encouraging
younger generations to begin writing themselves.

BOOKS MENTIONED: Sweet Sorrow, Erebus, Children of Blood and
Bone, Patrick Melrose, The Bad Beginning, Tales of the City, Dear
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