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Joanna Hardy-Susskind and Horatio Clare

Joanna Hardy-Susskind and Horatio Clare

Update: 2025-07-212
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THE TRUCE by Primo Levi, chosen by Horatio Clare
THE SUN DOES SHINE by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin, chosen by Joanna Hardy-Susskind
SULA by Toni Morrison, chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Writer Horatio Clare joins criminal defence barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind to discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Horatio's choice is a book he returns to every winter, The Truce, in which writer Primo Levi recounts his survivor's journey home to from Auschwitz across a war-torn Europe. Joanna puts forward another powerful autobiography, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, in which Anthony Ray Hinton recounts his time on death row after being wrongly accused of murder. And finally, Harriett's choice is an early novel by Toni Morrison, called Sula, which follows the turbulent friendship of two girls as they grow into adulthood within a poor but close-knit community in Ohio.

Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Becky Ripley

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Photo Credit: Ivan Weiss

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind and Horatio Clare

Joanna Hardy-Susskind and Horatio Clare

BBC Radio 4