Alistair Petrie and Alex Wheatle

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Actor Alistair Petrie, from TV series Sex Education, found Joan Didion's meditation on grief, The Year of Magical Thinking, unexpectedly uplifting. Writer Alex Wheatle, subject of one of Steve McQueen's Small Axe films, found Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island a means of escape from the horrors of his childhood, and presenter Harriett Gilbert enjoyed Men Don't Cry, by Faiza Guene. Producer Sally Heaven

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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.
0:33.3	Hello, today a one-legged pirate with a parrot on his shoulder.
0:36.8	Is he one of fiction's most
0:38.1	fascinating villains, also a story of Algerian immigrants in France and a writer's journey
0:44.1	from grief into mourning. With me to introduce their goodreads are the actor Alistair Petri,
0:50.2	Mr Groff, the headmaster in the Netflix show Sex Education, and whose recent film work includes Star Wars and Salfour and White.
0:58.1	This spring you'll be able to catch him in Hugh Lorry's take on Agatha Christie's
1:01.8	Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1:04.2	With Alistair is the author Alex Wheatle, among whose many novels are Brixton Rock, Cronton Knights,
1:10.6	Kane Warriors and Just Out, Comotia of the Caribbean.
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