Alistair Petrie and Alex Wheatle
Alistair Petrie and Alex Wheatle  
Podcast: A Good Read
Published On: Tue Mar 08 2022
Description: Actor Alistair Petrie, from TV series Sex Education, found Joan Didion's meditation on grief, The Year of Magical Thinking, unexpectedly uplifting. Writer Alex Wheatle, subject of one of Steve McQueen's Small Axe films, found Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island a means of escape from the horrors of his childhood, and presenter Harriett Gilbert enjoyed Men Don't Cry, by Faiza Guene. Producer Sally Heaven