Chris Tarrant and Mike Gayle
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
OPEN by Andre Agassi SONIC YOUTH SLEPT ON MY FLOOR by Dave Haslam THE SECRET HOURS by Mick Herron
Television and radio broadcaster Chris Tarrant nominates the autobiography of tennis legend Andre Agassi, and novelist Mike Gayle has gone for Dave Haslam’s memoir of his time spent DJing at Manchester’s famous Hacienda. Harriett is hoping the two of them will enjoy an espionage novel by Slow Horses author Mick Herron.
Producer for BBC Audio Bristol: Sally Heaven
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:07.2 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:09.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:12.1 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:17.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database. |
| 0:28.8 | They did know that I was different. |
| 0:31.7 | You had kids together. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:35.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:36.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.5 | You love books? |
| 0:40.8 | We love books. |
| 0:41.9 | And we're going to talk about some of our favourites. |
| 0:44.4 | With me today are the broadcaster Chris Tarant, |
| 0:46.9 | presenter most famously on television of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, |
| 0:50.9 | and the groundbreaking children's program, Tizwas, |
| 0:53.7 | and best known on radio for hosting |
| 0:55.8 | Capitol Radio's breakfast show for 20 years. Chris's latest book for The Love of Bears came out |
| 1:02.2 | this summer. With him is the best-selling author and journalist Mike Gale, whose most recent |
| 1:07.6 | novels include Half a World Away, a Song for me and you, and this year's Hope Street. |
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