Andy McNab and George the Poet
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Former SAS serviceman turned thriller writer Andy McNab, George the Poet and Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books by Akala, Attica Locke and Joe Simpson.
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson Publisher: Vintage
Natives by Akala Publisher: Two Roads
Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke Publisher: Serpent's Tail
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.
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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. |
| 0:34.3 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:39.1 | Hello, with me today, the former SAS operative Andy McNabb, |
| 0:43.6 | now a best-selling author of memoirs such as Bravo Two-Zero |
| 0:47.1 | and of well over 30 novels, |
| 0:49.5 | of which the first in the Tom Buckingham series Red Notice |
| 0:52.4 | is currently being made into a film. |
| 0:55.6 | Andy is also a spokesman for and advisor to the military and advises on war films such as Black Hawk Down |
| 1:02.6 | and Pearl Harbour. With him is George Mpanga, more popularly known as George the Poet. A recording artist |
| 1:10.5 | who began performing rap and grime at the age of 15 |
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