Nemone - 11/05/2010

Emma Kennedy joins Andrew Collins to talk about her book "The Tent, The Bucket and Me". This is the bestselling, stunning narrative non-fiction debut from award winning writer and actress Emma Kennedy, a hilarious Seventies childhood memoir of wet, windy and utterly disastrous family camping trips. There was a time when package holidays and shuttle buses were merely glints in the holidaymaker's eye; a time when going on holiday meant packing up the tent, squeezing the deck chairs and sleeping bags into the boot of a small, mechanically unsound car and setting off around the United Kingdom in search of serene surroundings and well-deserved relaxation. For the Seventies child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. But despite a brave new world of Casio hand-held calculators and digital watches, the Kennedy family always seemed to bear the brunt of the holiday Gods' cruel sense of humour.