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Our guest on Bookmarks today is the multi talented Michele A'Court - comedian, presenter, writer, columnist, podcaster. Back in the day she was even a What Now presenter
She joins Jesse in studio to talk about some of the books, music, movies and other things that have entertained and inspired her and also tell us about her new book, How We Met, in which she interviewed 42 couples from all over the country about the amusing and surprising ways they met.
Here are Michele's Bookmarks:
Books
• Antonia Fraser’s “Must You Go? - My Life with Harold Pinter” published 2010. (Memoir.) About the writer, about the time, about the joy and comforts of a long-term relationship.
• Currently reading Patricia Lockwood’s - “Priestdaddy” (Also a memoir.)
• YA novelist Patrick Ness - his "Chaos Walking" trilogy. The three books are The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men.
• Matt Ruff - “Set This House In Order” (2005) about how the brain works -specifically, the brain of someone with multiple personalities.
• Jane Smiley - “Last Hundred Years”, the trilogy made up of “Some Luck”, “Early Warning” and “Golden Age”.
Movies
• Casablanca (1942) (we watch it once a year).
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Singing in the Rain (1952)
• The Five Pennies (1959)
• Wonder Woman (2017)
• Black Panther (2018)
Songs
• “This Guy’s In Love With You” - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (my introduction to jazz, via my father.) I saw Herb play at the New Orleans Jazz Festival last year.
• “The Luckiest” - Ben Folds (a seminal song in my relationship with Jeremy)
TV
• “Jazz” - Ken Burns, documentary miniseries, released in 2001. 10 episodes totally 19 hours. Starts in 1917 with Jelly Roll Morton.
• “Last Tango in Halifax” (written by Sally Wainwright, starring Sarah Lancashire and Nicola Walker)
• “Jessica Jones” - Season 2
Podcasts
• This American Life
• On The Rag (I’m in it!)
• Bang!
