Jo Whiley

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BBC Radio 2 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Light Programme.

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Music: Classic Pop & Rock

Jo treats listeners to her favourite album tracks and musical gems rarely heard on Radio 2

Jo treats listeners to her favourite album tracks and some musical gems rarely heard on Radio 2

Jo Whiley: Radio 2 Book Club with Clare Pooley

Radio 2 Book Club with Clare Pooley

BBC Radio 2 - Jo Whiley, Radio 2 Book Club with Clare Pooley

Author Clare Pooley joins Jo for the Radio 2 Book Club. Plus Ren Harvieu’s Sofa Session.

Author Clare Pooley joins Jo for the Radio 2 Book Club, discussing The Authenticity Project. Plus Ren Harvieu plays Jo’s first Sofa Session from her new album Revel In The Drama.

Author Clare Pooley  joins Jo for the latest edition of the Radio 2 Book Club, discussing her novel The Authenticity Project.

Plus Ren Harvieu plays Jo’s first Sofa Session, with music from her brand new album Revel In The Drama.

The Authenticity Project is the story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love

Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes–in a plain, green journal–the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It’s run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica, who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long, the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selves–and soon find each other In Real Life at Monica’s Café.

The Authenticity Project‘s cast of characters–including Hazard, the charming addict who makes a vow to get sober; Alice, the fabulous mommy Instagrammer whose real life is a lot less perfect than it looks online; and their other new friends–is by turns quirky and funny, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. It’s a story about being brave and putting your real self forward–and finding out that it’s not as scary as it seems. In fact, it looks a lot like happiness.

Clare Pooley spent twenty years in the world of advertising before becoming a full-time mother. Pooley writes from her kitchen table in Fulham, London where she lives with her husband, three children, dog and an African pygmy hedgehog.

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