Arlene Phillips and Jocelyn Jee Esien
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - choreographer, Arlene Phillips and comedian and actress, Jocelyn Jee Esien - discuss their favourite books by Deborah Moggach, Robyn Travis and William Maxwell.
Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Prisoner to the Streets by Robyn Travis Publisher: XPress Books
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Publisher: Vintage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.3 | 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 |
| 0:40.9 | slash radio four. |
| 0:43.1 | Hello, welcome. Today's street violence in North London, a crime of passion in 1920s, Illinois, and a theatrical hotel with a difference. |
| 0:51.9 | With me to introduce their choice of a good read are the actress |
| 0:55.1 | and comedian Jocelyn G. Essian, the first ever black woman to write and star in her own TV |
| 1:00.4 | sketch show, the BBC's Little Miss Jocelyn. She's also starred in among other programmes, |
| 1:05.8 | three non-blondes and just this summer of the sitcom Big School. With Jocelyn is Arlene Phillips CBE, |
| 1:13.7 | creator in the 1970s of the game-changing dance group, |
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