Athena Kugblenu and Pope Lonergan
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Friends, sisters and serial killers all feature in the book choices for this week. Writer and stand-up comedian Athena Kugblenu picks 'My Sister the Serial Killer' by Oyinkan Braithwaite, a darkly comic tale which is as much about sibling rivalry as it is about murder. Nell Dunn's memoir about love and friendship, 'The Muse', is Harriett Gilbert's pick. And Pope Lonergan selects 'African Psycho' by Alain Mabanckou for its challenging portrayal of a frustrated and violent protagonist.
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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. |
| 0:33.4 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:35.5 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:49.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, today we've got friends, sisters and serial killers. |
| 0:57.3 | And joining me to introduce their goodread are two comedians. |
| 1:00.6 | Athena Kubleni, whose radio four show Athena's cancel culture is available on BBC Sounds, |
| 1:06.5 | who's a lead writer for the sketch show Sketchtopia, and who also writes for horrible histories, |
| 1:11.4 | the Russell Howardauer, |
| 1:12.9 | dead ringers and the now show among much else. |
| 1:16.2 | And with her, |
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