Ben Miller and Danny Wallace
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Comedian, writer and actor Ben Miller and writer Danny Wallace join Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books by AA Milne, William Trevor and George and Weedon Grossmith.
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne Publisher: Ishi Press International
Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor Publisher: Penguin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 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. |
| 0:38.4 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:40.4 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books |
| 0:45.4 | 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. |
| 0:52.5 | Today, a dangerous boy, a diary of very little consequence |
| 0:56.7 | and a bear of very little brain. With me to introduce their good read are the actor-director |
| 1:02.4 | and comedian Ben Miller, D.I. Richard Poole in Death in Paradise, half of the Armstrong and Miller |
| 1:08.4 | show, and whose latest big-screen appearance is as Rowan Atkinson's sidekick, Boff, in Johnny English Strikes again. |
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