American avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and radio DJ and writer Stuart Maconie talk about favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Laurie chooses Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson to give her a laugh. Stuart picks Sleep No More: Railway, Canal and Other Stories of the Supernatural by LTC Rolt, one of the men who saved Britain's inland waterways, and Harriett introduces both to Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever: the first book on A Good Read to have been `written" by a chimpanzee