Your third object is the queen but in fact it's a picture of you at the age of two standing next to a television on which the queen is appearing at her coronation. I feel like Viola does in the book yeah that the queen is bookending my life because I don't remember a time before the queen and of course all the generations sort of succeeded me. My daughters have no idea there was atime before the queen no she has been there she'll always be all the way through and nobody should hopefully she'll be there through the end so there's something about that strange continuity.
Kate Atkinson brings an antique silver hare, a Halifax Bomber and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony to the Penguin Studio to talk about her latest book ‘A God In Ruins’ with host Richard E Grant. The topics of conversation include the long-term effects of war on veterans, The Queen, how we age and the power of classical music to evoke an emotional response in us all. #PenguinPodcast
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