A Good Read: Nigel Kennedy and Clare Perkins

Violinist Nigel Kennedy takes time out from his UK concert tour to talk to actress Clare Perkins and Harriett Gilbert about one of his favourite books - Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mashima, the coming-of-age story of a young boy in post-war Japan. Clare chooses Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - a story she finds hopeful for humanity despite being about a hostage situation - and Harriett selects Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis, a 1915 novel about a young salesmen who awakes one morning to find he has changed into a monstrous insect