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Books and Authors

A Good Read: Daniel Finkelstein & Jill Paton Walsh

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Daniel Finkelstein, and writer Jill Paton Walsh, reveal their favourite books to presenter Harriett Gilbert. Daniel Finkelstein, recommends Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B Cialdini. Jill Paton Walsh's choice is What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel. And Harriett Gilbert's pick is The Van by Roddy Doyle. Produced by Beth O'Dea

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0:47.0

Hello, welcome. In the next half hour, you could learn how to recognise a con artist,

0:52.0

why market forces can't do everything, though, perhaps more than

0:54.8

you'd imagine, and the pitfalls to avoid of starting a burger and chip business with your

0:59.5

best friend. With me to introduce their choice of a good read are first the novelist

1:04.7

Jill Peyton Walsh, whose dozens of books for children and adults include the Booker Prize

1:09.6

shortlisted knowledge of angels

1:11.3

and a series of old-style detective fictions, including some about Lord Peter Wimsy.

1:16.5

The most recent of those, the late scholar, was published two months ago.

1:20.6

With Jill is the journalist Daniel Finkelstein, one-time advisor to John Major and William Hague,

1:26.4

and now associate editor, columnist and leader-writer for The John Major and William Hague, and now Associate Editor, Columnist and Leader

1:29.2

Writer for the Times, and a frequent contributor to such BBC programmes as The News Quiz and

1:35.2

any questions. And now a good read. So what's your book, Danny? Well, I've chosen influence by

1:40.8

Professor Robert Chaldingy. And I suppose the moment I fell in love with this was when

1:44.8

I was sitting outside Marks and Spencers, not actually reading the book, but watching somebody

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