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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, it's good to be back and joined today by comedian, actor and writer

Robert Webb, whose TV work includes the comedy sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look,

and the sitcoms, Peep Show and Back. Robert's best-selling memoir, How Not to Be a Boy, has just come out in paperback.

With him is Times journalist Hugo Rifkin, who's also a contributing editor for GQ magazine,

a regular panellist on Radio 4's news quiz, and a double winner at the recent National Press

Awards, being named Critic of the Year and getting a Best of Humour Award for his spoof Jacob Rees-Mogg diary.

Robert Webb, if you'd start us, what is your good read?

It's Waterland by Graham Swift, which I first wrote when I was, I think, 17.

It was an A-level text. My head of English at my grammar school

had this friskly progressive idea of studying only modern or rather living authors. So every now and

again, they'd run into trouble in Orden or Larkin died. I think the idea was that you were

forced to study the work in its historical context,

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