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Narrator

Sophie Aldred

Sophie Aldred was born in Greenwich, England and brought up in Blackheath, South East London. She studied drama at university and spent time with children’s drama companies in small productions before she became Ace in the immensely popular Doctor Who in 1987. Aldred has had a varied and busy television career in children’s programming, as a voiceover artist for television advertisements and providing voices for animated series such as Bob the Builder, Sergeant Stripes and Dennis and Gnasher.

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Title:

Funny Weather (MP3)

Written by:

Olivia Laing 

Read by:

Sophie Aldred 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

9 hours 42 minutes 

MP3 size:

404 MB 

Published:

April 16 2020 

Available Date:

April 16 2020 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781529046854 

Genres:

Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan audio 

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In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century.

In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the 21st century. Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keefe; interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith; writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury; and explores loneliness and technology; women and alcohol; sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time. We’re often told art can’t change anything. Laing argues that it can. It changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living.

'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art.'
The Telegraph

‘A warm, thinking, enticing sweep of a book, like spending the afternoon with your brainiest friend.’
Kate Mosse, bestselling author