Anjana Vasan and Anne-Marie Imafidon
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
BESSIE SMITH by Jackie Kay (Faber) chosen by Anjana Vasan EDGE OF HERE by Kelechi Okafor (Trapeze) chosen by Anne-Marie Imafidon THE WIDOW COUDERC by Georges Simenon (Penguin) chosen by Harriett Gilbert
Star of 'Black Mirror', 'We Are Lady Parts' and 'Wicked Little Letters' Anjana Vasan chooses Jackie Kay's affectionate and personal biography of Blues legend, Bessie Smith.
Founder of Stemettes and author of 'She's In CTRL' Anne-Marie Imafidon picks Kelechi Okafor's science-fiction debut, which looks at the relationship between technology and society in the near-future.
Presenter Harriett Gilbert opts for Georges Simenon's tale of a couple in rural France where it's not exactly clear who's using whom.
Producer: Toby Field, for BBC Audio Bristol
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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. |
| 0:34.3 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, to recommend books they love, I'm joined today first by the actor Anjana Varsen, |
| 0:44.5 | win a last year of an Olivier Award for her role on stage in a streetcar name Desire, |
| 0:49.4 | seen on TV in We Are Lady Parts, among much else, |
| 0:52.9 | and starring on the big screen in Wicked Little Letters out this week. |
| 0:57.8 | With Antina is Dr Anne-Marie Mafferden, |
| 1:00.5 | computer scientist and creator of the award-winning social enterprise, |
| 1:04.5 | Stemets, which aims to encourage more women and non-binary people |
| 1:08.0 | into science, technology, engineering and maths. |
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