Bernardine Evaristo and Jolyon Rubinstein

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Writer Bernardine Evaristo and comedian Jolyon Rubinstein join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Leone Ross, William Boyd and Cyril Hare.

Come Let Us Sing Anyway by Leone Ross Publisher: People Tree

Any Human Heart by William Boyd Publisher : Penguin

An English Murder by Cyril Hare Publisher : Faber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 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.
0:22.7	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.
0:33.2	Hello, today a novel by William Boyd, a shapeshifting collection of stories and an old-fashioned country house murder.
0:40.6	With me to introduce their good read are first the author Bernardine Everisto,
0:45.0	whose eight novels and verse fictions include The Emperor's Babe and, most recently, Mr. Loverman.
0:51.9	With Bernardine is the satirist Jolly and Rubenstein, co-creator of BBC shows
0:56.3	The Revolution will be televised and revolting
0:59.5	and whose latest work is the Spotify podcast we need to talk about.
1:05.8	Jolian, would you talk about your good read?
1:08.8	What is it? What are you suggesting?
1:10.1	Yes.
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