Antonia Quirke and Kerry Shale
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - film critic, Antonia Quirke and actor, Kerry Shale - discuss their favourite books by Craig Thompson, Gavin Maxwell and Simon Armitage.
Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems Edited by Simon Armitage Publisher: Faber and Faber
Blankets by Craig Thompson Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
A Reed Shaken By The Wind: Travels Among The Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Gavin Maxwell Publisher: Eland
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2013.
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| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.3 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.6 | 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. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk |
| 0:40.5 | slash radio four. Hello, welcome to what may be the most diverse selection of good reads we've ever brought to you from a classic account of the endangered Marsh Arabs of Iraq through an anthology of very short poems to a comic book. And to argue |
| 0:56.8 | their merits or not, as the case may be, I'm joined by an actor and a writer. Antonia Quirk is a |
| 1:03.1 | film critic for among others BBC television's film 2013. One of her books about movies, Madame |
| 1:09.1 | Depardieu and The Beautiful Strangers, |
| 1:11.6 | is itself being developed into a film. |
| 1:14.4 | Antonia's an eclectic reader. |
| 1:16.1 | Just in the last two weeks, she's ranged from Ian McEwan and Peter Ackroyd to Jilly Cooper, |
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