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The Radio 2 Book Club with Colson Whitehead and Kate Mosse

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead is The Radio 2 Book Club Book Of The Month, and author and Founder Director of The Women's Prize For Fiction Kate Mosse is our guest reviewer.

Colson Whitehead discusses his novel Harlem Shuffle which is The Radio 2 Book Club Book Of The Month, and Kate Mosse - author and Founder Director of The Women's Prize For Fiction is our guest reviewer.
Plus there's the Factoids, Non-Stop Oldies and the latest entertainment and lifestyle news.

Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York.
He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships.
For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize.
The Underground Railroad has been adapted as a Prime TV series, produced and directed by Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins.

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  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

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    While You're Still Young

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    Midsummer Nights

    • Eyes That See In The Dark.
    • RCA.
    • 1/8.

  • Laura Mvula

    Magical

    • Pink Noise.
    • Atlantic.

  • Camila Cabello

    Don't Go Yet

    • Familia.
    • Epic.

  • Anne-Marie & Little Mix

    Kiss My (Uh-Oh)

    • Therapy.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Owl City

    Fireflies

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    Dancin' The Night Away

    • And They Danced All Night.
    • Debutante.

  • The Weeknd

    Take My Breath

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  • Clean Bandit, Topic & Wes Nelson

    Drive

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  • The Rolling Stones

    Let's Spend The Night Together

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • The Byrds

    Eight Miles High

  • Elvis Presley

    Return To Sender

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

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  • Blue 脰yster Cult

    (Don't Fear) The Reaper

    • Chart Show Ultimate Rock - Various.
    • Hit.

  • 4 Non Blondes

    What's Up?

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Bonzo Dog Band

    I'm The Urban Spaceman

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • Judy Collins

    Both Sides Now

    • Rediscover The 60's & 70's.
    • Old Gold.

  • ABBA

    Waterloo

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 019.

  • Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

    Skate

    • An Evening With Silk Sonic.
    • Atlantic.

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    I Still Have Faith In You

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    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

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    Everything鈥檚 Gonna Be Alright (feat. London Community Gospel Choir)

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    Kiss Me

    • The Best Love Songs...Ever! (Various).
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    Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime

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    I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

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    Stomp (Radio 2 Live 2021)

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    Something Got Me Started

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
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    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

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    If The World Just Danced

    • Thank You.
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    You For Me

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    Last Train To London

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
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    Live It Up

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