Read All About It podcast mania with Margot McCuaig!
Margot McCuaig works in the busy and creative world of television, and is the Managing Director of mneTV, who are Scotland’s biggest producers of sport as well as producing a whole range of programmes on a variety of subjects.
She is also the founder of purple tv, an independent production company creating innovative digital media content and distinctive network and international television programmes. They’ve also produced a very interesting app, BookCityEdinburgh, which allows you to take a literary journey around Scotland’s capital city. You can get more information on it HERE
And if that’s not enough, Margot is also a novelist, with her debut novel, The Birds That Never Flew, published to great acclaim last year. I can vouch for its quality and would recommend you check it out HERE
Not surprisingly, Margot is very passionate about books, which made for a very entertaining and enjoyable Read All About It podcast.
Favourite book from childhood
GREYLING: Jane Yolen
THE SECRET ISLAND: Enid Blyton
Favourite book from school/university/teenage years
THE KEVIN & SADIE BOOKS: Joan Lingard
A book you’d recommend to anyone
THE ACCIDENTAL: Ali Smith
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A book you couldn’t be paid to read again
CANADA: Richard Ford
The last book you read or are currently reading:
TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE-CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA: Kerry Hudson
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