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Book at Bedtime: The Bricks That Built the Houses

Kae Tempest

Julian Wilkinson

Justine Willett

Book at Bedtime: The Bricks That Built the Houses: Episode 2: A World-Shrinking Gut-Smashing Kiss

The Bricks That Built the Houses

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Episode 2: A World-Shrinking Gut-Smashing Kiss

A World-Shrinking Gut-Smashing Kiss

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, The Bricks That Built the Houses, A World-Shrinking Gut-Smashing Kiss

Introducing Pete, one of London's overqualified twentysomethings living on dead-end jobs.

Introducing Pete, one of London's overqualified twentysomethings living on dead-end jobs, but wanting more.

Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest reads from her novel, a tale of desire, ambition and hedonism, set in south-east London now. 

Today, we meet Pete, one of London's over-qualified twenty-somethings living on dead-end jobs, but wanting more. And then there's Becky, still dreaming of dancing but whose reality is waitressing by day and giving massages in hotels by night. And Harry's still getting by nicely by dealing drugs to the elite of the city, but she can't forget the girl she opened up to in the club to the other night. Soon all three of their worlds will collide together.

Written and read by Mercury Prize-nominated Kate Tempest, who won the Ted Hughes Prize for poetry in 2013.
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Julian Wilkinson.

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Kate Tempest reads her novel of love and loss, drugs and desire, set in modern London.

Poet and rapper Kate Tempest reads her debut novel set among the disenfranchised, but still dreaming, twentysomethings of modern London.

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