A Good Read: Mathew Baynton and Aasmah Mir talk favourite books
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BBC
4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Mathew Baynton and Aasmah Mir choose favourite books to recommend to 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? |
| 0:21.3 | 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. |
| 0:33.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.9 | 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. |
| 0:53.2 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:57.5 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:59.2 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 1:02.4 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 1:06.7 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 1:11.5 | Hello, with me today, the writer and actor Matthew Bainton, star and co-author with James Corden of BBC 2's The Wrong Man's. |
| 1:18.9 | Also star of the horrible history's sketch show and its many offspring, including the feature film Bill, |
| 1:24.4 | in which he plays none other than William Shakespeare and this year's BBC sitcom |
| 1:28.4 | Ghosts. With Matthew is the broadcaster Asma Mir, presenter of Saturday Live here on Radio |
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