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Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, 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.

Hello, with me today are Lloyd Grossman, presenter of among other TV programs, through the Keyhole and Master Chef,

creator of a successful food brand, chairman of the Royal Parks, and a guitarist whose band The New Forbidden made their seventh appearance at

Glastonbury last summer and with Lloyd a woman who's primarily known as a musician, a techno

DJ and a singer whose voice it's been said can do pretty much anything. She's Skin

lead vocalist of Skunker Nancy, a band that's actually headlined Glastonbury

and is preparing for a major world tour next year.

Lloyd Grossman, to you first, would you tell us what your good read is and why?

My good reads is Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham.

I never expected to be a Somerset Ma mom fan because I was always educated in that kind of

F.R. Leavis great tradition, you know, novels had to be terribly important. And, you know,

I love Henry James and Conrad and so on. So people who tend to like those authors tend to think

of mom as being rather kind of middle-brow, middle-class type of thing.

He's the most wonderful writer.

I have loved every single book I have read by him.

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