Colin Greenwood & Joanne McNally

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Radiohead's bassist Colin Greenwood and Irish comedian Joanne McNally recommend great books to presenter Harriett Gilbert. Joanne's is This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay. Colin goes for Homing by Jon Day and Harriett's is Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Colm Tóibín. First of a new series, follow us on instagram at @agoodreadbbc Producer Beth O'Dea

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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 didn't 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. Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.2	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.
0:53.3	Hello, it's lovely to be back, not least because I'm joined today by radio head bassist
0:58.0	Colin Greenwood, who these days also reviews books for The Spectator and by comedian Joanne
1:03.4	McNally, creator of one woman's show Bite Me and who's just been cast in a new comedy
1:08.3	sketch show for ITV. Her choice of good read are going to take us into the painfully humorous world of a junior doctor.
1:16.0	But Colin, to you first, your suggestion for a good read is.
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