Bill Paterson and Tom Chatfield
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Actor Bill Paterson and tech philosopher Tom Chatfield join Harriett Gilbert' to discuss their favourite books by Christopher Hitchens, Terry Pratchett and Dava Sobel.
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett Publisher: Corgi
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel Publisher: Harper Perennial
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Publisher: Atlantic Books
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2017.
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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 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, with me today, the actor Bill Patterson, whose multifarious screen roles include most recently, |
| 0:43.3 | the less than satisfactory father in Fleabag on BBC 3, and the lawyer, Ned Garwin in Outlander. |
| 0:50.3 | Bill's also the author of Tales from the Back Green, stories about his growing up in Glasgow originally written for radio. |
| 0:57.7 | With him is the writer, broadcaster and tech philosopher Tom Chatfield, |
| 1:03.1 | the latest of whose half-dozen books exploring digital culture is called Live This Book. |
| 1:08.5 | Tom creates and designs content for games, apps and interactive media. |
| 1:14.4 | Bill Patterson, would you start us off? |
| 1:16.7 | What is your good read? |
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