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Poppy Jay and Catherine Johnson

The host of the Brown Girls Do It Too podcast and the author behind Mamma Mia talk about cats, a wrestling princess and grief.

The host of the Brown Girls Do It Too podcast Poppy Jay and the writer of Mamma Mia Catherine Johnson join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books. They talk about moggies, a wrestling princess and grief...

Catherine chooses George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, Harriett goes for Doris Lessing's On Cats and Poppy tells us why Judy Corbalis' children's book The Wrestling Princess still stands as her favourite of all time.

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28 minutes

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Fri 30 Jul 2021 23:00

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  • Tue 27 Jul 2021 16:30
  • Fri 30 Jul 2021 23:00

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