Ayesha Hazarika and Martin Rowson
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika and cartoonist-author Martin Rowson join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Elena Ferrante, Rohan O'Grady and Michael Ondaatje.
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Translator - Ann Goldstein Publisher: Europa Editions
Let's Kill Uncle by Rohan O'Grady Publisher: Bloomsbury
The Skin of A Lion by Michael Ondaatje Publisher: Picador
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2019.
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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 didn't 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. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:39.6 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:42.6 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:47.4 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:51.9 | Today, an intense childhood friendship in Naples and another more murderous |
| 0:56.1 | one on a remote Canadian island. With me to share their good read are cartoonist, illustrator and |
| 1:01.6 | writer Martin Rosen, whose works appear among other places in The Guardian and the Daily Mirror |
| 1:06.5 | and whose more than 60 books include stuff, a memoir about clearing out his parents' house, |
| 1:12.4 | a graphic novelisation of the Communist Manifesto, and Pestrami-faced racist and other verses. |
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