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A Good Read: Maggie Aderin-Pocock and William Orbit

Series 1401, episode 2

Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock discusses John Wyndham's sci-fi novel Chocky, in which an 11-year-old boy develops an unusual relationship with what his parents suspect is an imaginary friend. Record producer William Orbit selects Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, an alternative view of the events of Shakespeare's classic Hamlet, while Harriett Gilbert picks out The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, by Janice Dalloway

Cast (unconfirmed)

Harriett Gilbert
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
William Orbit