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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.

Harry Potter, Lizzie Bennett, Virginia Woolf's sexually ambiguous Orlando, do they have anything in common? Stay tuned.

With me to introduce their good read are first the editor and publisher of the Times Literary Supplement, Stig Abel, who also presents Radio 4's front row and is the author of How Britain Really Works.

With Stig is Saima Aslam, founder and director of the Bradford Literature Festival and last year elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Stig, there's a special reason why Seimer and you are here today,

which is that you helped compile the BBC's new list of 100 novels that shaped our world.

Would you just explain briefly what this list is about, what it's raison d'etre?

Yeah, and I think the key word in that is our world,

being the personal choices of the group of people that they gathered together.

Because it wasn't an attempt to come up with 100 canonical books,

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