Anne-Marie Duff and Louise O'Neill

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor Anne-Marie Duff and writer Louise O’Neill join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Maggie O’Farrell, Sally Rooney and Angela Carter.

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell. Publisher: Tinder Press

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney. Publisher: Faber

Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter. Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 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.
0:27.4	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.
0:38.5	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.4	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.6	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:47.9	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:53.0	With me today is the actor Anne-Marie Duff, seen most recently on stage as Lady Macbeth
0:58.4	at the National Theatre and in the cinema as the poor sweet brain-damaged mother in on
1:03.3	Chesel Beach. On television among much else, she was star of the crime drama from darkness.
1:09.5	With Anne-Marie is the author Louise O'Neill,
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