Alice Lowe and Andrew Hunter Murray
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Comedy writer Andrew Hunter Murray and writer, actress and filmmaker Alice Lowe join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Winifred Watson, Miranda July and Margaret Drabble.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson Publisher: Persephone
The First Bad Man by Miranda July Publisher: Canongate
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble Publisher: Penguin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 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. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, today a spinster, a showgirl, and two somewhat unusual approaches to motherhood. |
| 0:43.6 | Here to introduce their good read are the actress and writer Alice Lowe, |
| 0:47.8 | perhaps best known for co-scripting and co-starring in the award-winning movie Sightseers, |
| 0:52.5 | and for this year's Prevenge, a dark comedy |
| 0:55.8 | she not only scripted and acted in, but directed. With Alice is the writer, performer and improviser |
| 1:01.7 | Andrew Hunter Murray, one of the wits behind the panel show QI, a QI elf, in other words. He also presents |
| 1:09.0 | no such thing as a fish and is a contributor to private eye. |
| 1:13.7 | Andrew, would you start us off with your good read? |
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