A Good Read 17 October 2017: Owen Jones & Georgia LA
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Owen Jones and Georgia LA discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? |
| 0:21.4 | When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe? |
| 0:25.1 | I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
| 0:29.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:37.1 | My name's Linda Davies, |
| 0:38.3 | and I commissioned podcasts for BBC Sounds. As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the |
| 0:43.8 | very highest quality, featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you |
| 0:50.7 | may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things, like pop stars, |
| 0:57.2 | poltergeists, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples. |
| 1:02.5 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 1:08.9 | This is the BBC. |
| 1:14.0 | Hello today. Over at BBC Sounds. This is the BBC. Hello, today we've got politics and sex in the 1960s, the 1980s, and in a disturbing future world. |
| 1:21.9 | With me to introduce their good read are the writer Owen Jones, author most recently of The Establishment and How They Get Away |
| 1:29.5 | with it, and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, and Georgia Lewis Anderson, or LA, |
| 1:35.5 | journalist and broadcaster, presenter of web TV show The Fox Problem, who, as someone with her |
| 1:40.6 | finger on the pulse of British millennial life, currently advises technology brands such as Google on the scripts for their artificial intelligence robot. |
| 1:49.5 | Owen, would you start us? What's your choice of a good read? |
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