Alex Polizzi and Peter Robinson

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - TV's Hotel Inspector, Alex Polizzi, and DCI Banks crime novels author, Peter Robinson - discuss their favourite books by Jonathan Lethem, JL Carr and Dodie Smith.

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Published by Faber and Faber

A Month in The Country by JL Carr Published by Penguin

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith Published by Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.

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0:00.0	Things just swirling around my head.
0:03.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:06.3	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:11.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:13.5	I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift,
0:17.6	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.
0:27.5	Then you met.
0:28.3	Then we met.
0:29.2	The Gift.
0:30.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.2	Thanks for downloading a good read.
0:35.4	You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk
0:40.5	slash radio four. Hello, welcome to a new season of a good read and how better to kick things off than with three very different tales of thwarted love.
0:51.2	Well, thwarted love and murder and God and even a kitchen sink.
0:56.2	With me to introduce their choice of book are first the Hotelia,
0:59.9	Alessandra Maria Luigia, Olga Polizzi di Sorrentino.
1:04.6	Or as she's more succinctly known on British television, Alex Polizzi,
1:08.5	the enormously popular hosts of Channel 5's The Hotel Inspector and and as of last year of the BBC's The Fixer.
1:15.4	With her husband, she also runs Miller's wholesale bakery.
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