Chiltern Voice Book Club

Chiltern Voice Book Club

Chiltern Voice Book Club is a weekly radio show in which Antonia Honeywell talks books, writing reading and publishing with a varied range of brilliant writers. Each guest chooses a selection of songs which are played as part of the show. Unfortunately the songs can't be included here, but the words and the wisdom are unmissable. Tune in to chilternvoice.fm on Sundays 2 to 4 pm to hear the show complete with songs.

Episodes

July 3, 2022 57 mins
Robin joins Antonia to talk about his dark, compelling second novel The Guest House, written in lockdown with a new baby. Along the way we talk representation, diversity, becoming the person you want to be and being the person you wish your child-self had been able to see - and musical theatre. Of course.

I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney Houston
Gimme Gimme Gimme - ABBA
Bills Bills Bills - Destiny's Child
Hold On - Adele
So Sorry -...
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Sarra joins Antonia to celebrate her latest novel, the warm, immersive and wonderful London, With Love. The Sarra Manning line takes us on a trip through Sarra’s prolific and enduring writing career, with stops at Just Seventeen, London before Crossrail, Noel Streatfeild, music, dogs, selecting great reads for Red Magazine and so many more. A joy.

Jennifer She Said - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Girl VII - St Etienne
West End Girls -...
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May 15, 2022 58 mins
Julie joins Antonia to talk about her beautiful debut novel, That Green Eyed Girl, about New York in the 1950s, about writing dreams and process and heartbreak - and answers openly and honestly the perennial question, What took you so long? A must-listen.

I’m Coming Home - Tom Jones
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
Young Americans - David Bowie
Streets of Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Trouble in Mind - Marianne Faithfull
What Becomes of the B...
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May 6, 2022 64 mins
Fiona ’s writing career, from journalism (Fiona was the last journalist in the UK to interview Michael Jackson before he died), to Faber Academy, to her fifth novel, Into The Dark, provides the framework for a far-reaching and wide-ranging conversation encompassing love, loss, fear, survival and joy. Join us x

Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Like a Prayer - Madonna
Carey - Joni Mitc...
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April 17, 2022 55 mins
Prolific novelist, OBE, the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor of Creative Writing and champion of new writers Maggie Gee joins Antonia to talk about her fourteenth novel, The Red Children. This is a conversation about writing, longevity, disappointment, love, war and hope - but above all, it’s a chance to enjoy the company of a writing icon and beautiful human being. Join us x

Mack the Knife - Lottie L...
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April 10, 2022 71 mins
Lewis’ human and superstar novelist Joanna Cannon joins Antonia to talk about her new novel, A Tidy Ending, about the beginning of her writing career, the joys and perils of early success, about resilience and perseverance and moving from writing as joy to writing as career. And, of course, the music. Please join us!

These Boots - Nancy Sinatra
To Sir With Love - Lulu
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Welome Home - Peters, Lee
Don’t Think Twic...
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March 27, 2022 59 mins
Stephen joins Antonia to talk about his novel Sell Us The Rope, the novel Hilary Mantel wishes she had written. It’s 1907 and Stalin is in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party… Sell Us The Rope is Stephen’s sixth novel - he’s been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize with Life! Death! Prizes! the title of which sums up this Book Club chat - except for the death bit, which we took out to make way for the punk ...
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February 20, 2022 60 mins
Bestselling novelist Janice Hallett joins Antonia to talk about her phenomenally successful debut novel The Appeal, about how her life as a journalist and a screenwriter has fed into her work as a novelist, about how she uses music to trick herself into getting the writing done and about What Happens Now (including adapting her own work for the screen).


Brand New Key - Melanie Safe
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Save a Prayer - Duran Duran
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February 13, 2022 62 mins
Hannah joins Antonia to talk about The Codes of Love and its genesis as a short story, unlikeable characters, the importance of music, why we write (and why we don’t) and how we might just persuade ourselves to keep going.

Tall Heights - Horse to Water
Angel Olsen - Windows
Ane Brun - Halo
Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
Laura Marling - Ghosts
First Aid Kit - Emmylou
Daughter - Candles
Emily King - Georgia
Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Bett...
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February 6, 2022 59 mins
Laura Pearson, novelist and founder of The Motherload Book Club, brings a list of her favourite books to Book Club. We talk about titles, whether there’s a right time to write about disasters, the importance of small presses… We also talk about Laura’s own writing and her novels, Missing Pieces and Nobody’s Wife, and the life-changing turn of events in Laura’s own life that led to her third novel, I Wanted You To Know.


Paperback Wri...
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January 30, 2022 70 mins
Susie joins Antonia live in the studio to talk about her beautiful new novel Loved and Missed, about family and loss and the superpower of kindness, the brilliance of Judy Garland, Susie’s writing career - and her wonderful song choices.

Bob Marley - Redemption Song
The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
Beyonce - Hold Up
Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry on their Own
Judy Garland - Zing! Went the Strings of my Heart
Hoagy Carmichael and Ella Logan - Two S...
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January 23, 2022 62 mins
Imogen Hermes Gower and Antonia talk about Imogen's Women’s Prize shortlisted debut novel, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, about the effect of a staggeringly successful debut on her life and writing, about writing courses and competitions and mermaids and writing historical fiction for a contemporary audience and Joan of Arc and - of course - Kate Bush.


Paris 1919 - John Cale

Neighborhood #2 (Laika) - Arcade Fire

Samson - Regina Spektor

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January 16, 2022 57 mins
Cathy joins Antonia to talk about Write It All Down, her generous, tender and constructive guide for anyone wishing to turn their own experiences into words on the page. We discuss Cathy’s first book, her memoir The Last Act of Love, about the death of her beloved brother Matty, and the path of her writing and teaching since then, which somehow led to the wonder of Write It All Down.

Irish Rover,The Pogues and The Dubliners
Mattie’...
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December 12, 2021 57 mins
Beloved book blogger (Years of Reading Selfishly, Two Fond of Books) and regular guest Clare Reynolds brings her gloriously voracious reading habit to the service of anyone looking to buy books for Christmas, and we settle once and for all the pressing question of which of us George Michael would have chosen if the universe had arranged itself differently.

Elton John - Step Into Christmas
The Pretenders - 2000 miles
Elvis - Blue Chris...
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December 5, 2021 65 mins
Andy Miller 5th December 2021

By overwhelming popular demand, Andy Miller (yes, he of The Year of Reading Dangerously and Backlisted Pod) returns to Chiltern Voice Book Club, this time bringing his Christmas record collection. Between his glorious Christmas music choices, Andy and Antonia talk all things Christmas - presents, family, arguments, exactly what The Wombles and The Sex Pistol have in common … and books. All the books.

Th...
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Chiltern Voice Book Club celebrates the launch of Sunburnt Saints, an anthology of climate change fiction, with interviews and song choices from some of the contributors, as well as from Andy Leach and Hannah Persaud, founders of Massive Overheads. The anthology is available from Big Green Books - order a copy online.

Andy Leach - Richard Thompson, When the Saints Rise Out of Their Graves
Hannah Persaud - Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue ...
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October 31, 2021 52 mins
In this super-spooky Hallowe’en special, the prizewinning, bestselling Queen of Horror Catriona Ward joins Antonia to talk about the fascination of horror - why we read it and why she writes it. Encompassing an unusual childhood, the curse of the second novel, the writing of her Stephen King-championed breakthrough novel, working as Executive Producer on the film adaptation with The Imaginarium, love, loss and creation, this is a w...
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Tammy - with her alter-egos Tamar Cohen and Rachel Rhys - joins Antonia to talk about beginning her writing career, the carcasses she has hidden in her laptop, Richard and Judy’s orange sofa, and exactly how she has managed to write fourteen novels in eleven years. Courage, compassion -and news of a new Rachel Rhys title coming next year!

Edith Piaf - Non, je ne regrette rien
Shirley Bassey - The Girl from Tiger Bay
Madness - It Must ...
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October 3, 2021 58 mins
Proud Liverpudlian Sarah Moorhead talks about the beliefs and passions that drove her genre-defying debut Witness X, about writing before and after publication, about justice, fragility, peace - and the village it takes to nurture a writer.

The Beatles - Paperback Writer
Johnny Cash - You Are My Sunshine
Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Sting - Fragile
I Want to Break Free - Queen
Just Can’t Get Enough - Depeche Mode
This...
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September 26, 2021 56 mins
Gareth talks about his writing beginnings (including meeting Diana Wynne Jones), his first publications, The Embers of War trilogy, the value of science fiction to the future of humanity - and happiness.

All My Stars Aligned - St Vincent
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
It Must Be Love - Labi Siffre
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
Downtown Train - Tom Waits
Oh, Maker - Janelle Monáe
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Superstition - Stevie W...
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