A Good Read: Phill Jupitus and Robin Ince
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Comedians Phill Jupitus and Robin Ince talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love. Phill's is Dada: Art and Anti-Art by Hans Richter, the founder of the punk art movement. Robin's is Soviet-era science fiction: Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the book on which Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker was based. Lastly, Harriett introduces them to a dark and compelling new crime novel in which the protagonists are children: Dodgers by Bill Beverly. Producer Beth O'Dea.
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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. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:46.7 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:48.4 | We don't always see eye to eye, |
| 0:51.2 | but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello, with me today, two comedians. First, Phil Jupiter, stand-up, poet and improviser for 18 years, team captain on BBC 2's pop quiz, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and a regular guest on |
| 1:05.0 | shows such as QI on television, and I'm sorry I haven't a clue on the radio. He's currently on a nationwide tour with his stand-up show, Duplicity. |
| 1:14.7 | With Phil, it's Robin Inns, who with Professor Brian Cox, presents Radio 4's irreverent science |
| 1:20.5 | program, The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 1:23.0 | He's also creator and co-host of the podcast, Robin and Josie's bookshambles, and he too is right |
| 1:29.3 | now on tour with a show called Pragmatic Insanity. |
| 1:34.2 | Phil Jupiterus, would you begin? What is your choice of a good read? |
| 1:38.3 | My choice this week is Hans Richter's Dada, Art and Anti-Art, a book which I picked up on something of a whim. |
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