4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The actors Sarah Hadland (Miranda, That Mitchell and Webb Look) and Russell Tovey (Being Human, The History Boys) recommend favourite books to presenter Harriett Gilbert. Sarah's choice is French hit The Elegance of The Hedgehog. Russell's is Close Range: Brokeback Mountain, made into a film with Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal and Harriett's is The Naked Civil Servant.
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0:46.0 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
0:50.3 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
0:54.3 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. With me today, two actors. Russell Tovey currently stars in the US FBI drama Quantico. His many |
1:02.0 | other TV roles include the Werewolf George Sanz in Being Human and on stage his career ranges |
1:07.9 | from the history boys to the recent Pinter at the Pinter season. |
1:11.8 | Russell is in the process of filming the forthcoming BBC TV drama, years and years. |
1:17.4 | With him is Sarah Hadland, perhaps best known to TV audiences as Stevie, the joke shop manager |
1:22.7 | in Miranda. She also appeared opposite Russell in the job lot and most recently was in the comedy Hang Ups. |
1:29.6 | Sarah's currently starring in the play Admissions at the Trafalgar Studios in London. |
1:34.9 | Russell Tovey, would you start us off? What's your good read? |
1:37.7 | My good read, Harriet, hello. Hello. Hello to you as well, Russell. Hello, Sarah. Hello, Sarah. |
1:44.5 | It's Breakback Mountain, the short story by Annie Pruh, |
1:47.6 | and it's part of a collection of stories. |
1:50.0 | I came to this book after the movie, Brokeback Mountain, |
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