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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, today, one of the more controversial titles to be long listed

for the Booker Prize, and a report of which Albert Einstein is said to have ordered

1,000 copies. With me to introduce their good read are Jonathan Porritt, veteran campaigner, writer and commentator on sustainable development and co-founder of Forum for the Future.

His books include The World We Made and published just this year, Hope in Hell.

With Jonathan is the writer and performer Vanessa Kisoula, appointed Bristol City Poet for 2018 to 2020,

and last year the Glastonbury Festival's resident poet.

Vanessa's published two collections and her poem, Hollow, on the toppling of Edward Colston statue in Bristol,

had over 700,000 views in three days on Twitter.

Jonathan Porrick, would you start us off?

What is your choice of a good read?

I've chosen a book called Hiroshima by a journalist called John Hersey,

which he wrote after he visited Hiroshima and spent a lot of time with six individual citizens

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