Adam Kay and Farrah Jarral

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Two former doctors, Adam Kay and Farrah Jarral, join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by David Sedaris, Per Petterson and Mohsin Hamid.

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris Publisher: Abacus

I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson Publisher: Vintage

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018.

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0:00.0	Things just swirling around my head.
0:03.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:06.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:11.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:13.4	I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift,
0:17.5	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:22.8	They did know that I was different.
0:25.7	You had kids together.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:27.4	Then you met.
0:28.3	Then we met.
0:29.2	The Gift.
0:30.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.3	This is the BBC.
0:38.4	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.4	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.6	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:47.9	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:52.5	Today, the sharp-edged humour of David Sedaris,
0:55.7	a fraught relationship between mother and son in Scandinavia, and a future world that may in fact
1:01.1	not be so many years away. With me to introduce their good read are the doctor turned writer
1:06.5	and comedian Adam Kay, author of the multi-award-winning bestseller,
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