Cathy Newman and Jeffery Deaver

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Channel 4 News host Cathy Newman and bestselling crime writer Jeffery Deaver join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Annie Proulx, Min Kym and Amy Bloom.

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Publisher: Fourth Estate

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung by Min Kym Publisher: Penguin

White Houses by Amy Bloom Publisher: Granta

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 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 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.
0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.7	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.4	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.6	where two guests and I recommend books 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.
0:52.8	Today I'm joined from America by best-selling author
0:55.3	Geoffrey Diva, whose more than 30 novels include The Bone Collector, filmed with Denzel
1:00.3	Washington and Angelina Jolie, the cutting edge and just out The Never Game, the first in
1:05.9	a new series featuring investigator Coulter Shaw. With Jeffrey, it's journalist and channel 4 news presenter Cathy Newman,
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