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Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.

Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcast,

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find

some great reading suggestions here. With me today to champion books they love are two journalists.

James Marriott is a columnist and book reviewer at the Times newspaper. Jude Rogers is an arts

journalist for The Guardian and Observer. A memoir, The Sound of Being Human,

how music shapes our lives, is just out in paperback. Jude, would you begin by telling us

what your choice of a good read is? My choice is border country by Raymond Williams, which

have chosen partly because it's set around where I live now. I can hear the Abigavenny to

Hereford train line from about a mile away up the hill from where I live. This is the central

location really of his book. It's about a young man who's a lecturer who goes back to see his father

who's dying in this border country village called Glyn Maure, which is loosely disguised version of Pandey,

the village where Raymond Williams was from. So it's a disguised biography in many ways.

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