Alexander McCall Smith & Prof Lucie Green
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Writer Alexander McCall Smith and UCL's Department of Space & Climate Physics, Professor Lucie Green, join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Somerset Maugham, John Higgs and Lewis Carroll.
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham Publisher: Heinemann
Watling Street by John Higgs Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Publisher: Macmillan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.
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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. |
| 0:27.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:38.7 | 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. |
| 0:53.0 | With me today, the author Alexander McCall-Smith, |
| 0:55.9 | whose novels include the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Scotland Street novels, |
| 1:01.2 | the Sunday Philosophy Club novels, a whole wealth of standalone books, and books for children, |
| 1:06.5 | Libretti and Radio Plays. Just this autumn, he's brought out a new Mara Motswai novel called How to Raise an |
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