A Good Read: Adam Kay and Farrah Jarral talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
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BBC
4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Two former doctors join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books. Adam Kay is a writer and comedian whose first book, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, was published to great acclaim in 2017. Farrah Jarral is a writer and broadcaster who was, until recently, a London GP.
The good reads up for discussion are Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris and I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson.
Producer: Mair Bosworth.
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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? |
| 0:21.3 | 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. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.5 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:39.6 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:42.7 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:47.0 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:51.7 | Today, the sharp-edged humour of David Sedaris, a fraught relationship |
| 0:55.9 | between mother and son in Scandinavia, and a future world that may in fact not be so many |
| 1:01.1 | years away. With me to introduce their good read are the doctor turned writer and comedian |
| 1:06.4 | Adam Kaye, author of the multi-award-winning bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt, Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor. |
| 1:14.7 | And with Adam, another erstwhile medic, Farah Goral, for 12 years an inner London doctor, a regular contributor to Radio 4, and currently writing a book on the many ways the soul has been understood. |
| 1:27.1 | Adam, Kay, would you start us off with your choice for good read? |
| 1:30.1 | What is it? |
| 1:31.0 | I do think this is a good read. |
| 1:32.7 | This is David Starris and dress your family in corduroy and denim. |
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