Alexei Sayle and Meg Rosoff
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Meg Rosoff, Alexei Sayle and Harriett Gilbert discuss favourite books by Richard Hughes, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, and Donna Leon.
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes Publisher: Vintage
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson Publisher: Pinter & Martin
Donna Leon's Friends in High Places Publisher: Arrow
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017.
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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. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello, with me today, Alexis Sale, godfather of alternative comedy, TV, film and theatre actor, |
| 0:44.0 | and author of screenplays, short stories, novels, plus an autobiography of which volume two, |
| 0:49.7 | Thatcher stole my trousers, came out last year. |
| 0:52.9 | On Radio 4, you can currently catch him in Alexei |
| 0:55.6 | Sails' imaginary sandwich bar. With him is the novelist Meg Rosoff, whose books for young adults |
| 1:01.8 | include How I Live Now and, most recently Beck, a collaboration with the late Mal Pete. |
| 1:08.1 | Last year also saw the publication of Meg's first novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed. |
| 1:13.8 | Meg, start us off. Your choice of a good read is? |
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