Brendan O'Neill and Gabriel Gbadamosi
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - former editor of Spiked, Brendan O'Neill, and writer Gabriel Gbadamosi - discuss their favourite books by Graham Greene, Tarjei Vesaas and Michael Dibdin.
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene Publisher: Vintage
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas Publisher: Peter Owen
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin Publisher: Faber
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.3 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.6 | 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. |
| 0:27.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk |
| 0:40.5 | slash radio four. |
| 0:43.7 | Hello, welcome. Today we're off to the lethal cold of Norway, the heat of central Spain, and the blood-slipery streets of Victorian London. |
| 0:51.8 | A giddying journey, but here to guide us with their choice of a |
| 0:54.6 | good read are the Irish Nigerian poet and dramatist Gabriel Badamosi, whose plays include the |
| 1:00.5 | award winning the long hot summer of 76 for Radio 3, and who earlier this year published his |
| 1:06.0 | first novel Vauxhall. And with Gabriel, the journalist Brendan O'Neill, editor of the online magazine Spiked, |
| 1:13.2 | columnist for among others the big issue, and author of Can I Recycle My Granny and 39 other |
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