Bookshelfie: Women’s Prize Podcast S6 Ep6: Bookshelfie: Josie Long
May 4, 2023
51:17
Comedian Josie Long joins Vick to discuss internal monologues, her big move to Scotland and how ADHD is changing the way she sees the world and herself.
She may be best known for her standup comedy but she is also a podcaster, playwright, co-founder of the education charity Arts Emergency, and now an author, with her very own debut book , Because I don't know what you mean and what you don't - a brilliant, richly-drawn collection of short stories.
Josie started doing stand up at the tender age of just 14 years old and by the time she was 17 - shortly before heading to Oxford University to study English - she won the BBC New Comedy Award. After graduating, she returned to the standup circuit and was named best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006. She’s since become the first woman to be a triple nominee for the Edinburgh comedy award.
Josie’s book choices are:
** Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
** Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
** Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi
** New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
** Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Vick Hope, multi-award winning TV and BBC Radio 1 presenter, author and journalist, is the host of season six of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast. Every week, Vick will be joined by another inspirational woman to discuss the work of incredible female authors. The Women’s Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, and they continue to champion the very best books written by women.
She may be best known for her standup comedy but she is also a podcaster, playwright, co-founder of the education charity Arts Emergency, and now an author, with her very own debut book , Because I don't know what you mean and what you don't - a brilliant, richly-drawn collection of short stories.
Josie started doing stand up at the tender age of just 14 years old and by the time she was 17 - shortly before heading to Oxford University to study English - she won the BBC New Comedy Award. After graduating, she returned to the standup circuit and was named best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006. She’s since become the first woman to be a triple nominee for the Edinburgh comedy award.
Josie’s book choices are:
** Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
** Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
** Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi
** New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
** Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Vick Hope, multi-award winning TV and BBC Radio 1 presenter, author and journalist, is the host of season six of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast. Every week, Vick will be joined by another inspirational woman to discuss the work of incredible female authors. The Women’s Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, and they continue to champion the very best books written by women.
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