{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69d9f5bbaf4db69e0d33070e/6a27abd4ec7c103dca8865d3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 8 - Harriet Thorpe","description":"<p>Actress Harriet Thorpe - star of The Brittas Empire, Absolutely Fabulous, Wicked and EastEnders - sits down with Scott &amp; David to share the three stories that shaped who she became, spanning the power of being read to, the courage to tell stories that matter, and the book that taught a dyslexic girl she could love reading after all.</p><p>Her choices: Noel Streatfeild's <em>Ballet Shoes</em>, her mother Gillian Freeman's groundbreaking 1960s novel <em>The Leather Boys</em>, and Wilkie Collins's <em>The Woman in White</em>. Together they trace a life that runs from garden shows in North London to Beverly Hills backlots to the Queen Vic.</p>","author_name":"with Scott Brown & Jamie Love"}