Colin Murray and Bob Mills
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - sports presenter, Colin Murray and comedian, Bob Mills - discuss their favourite books by Richard Brautigan, Georgette Heyer and Kazuo Ishiguro.
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan Publisher: Vintage
These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer Publisher: Arrow Books
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Publisher: Faber
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 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 slash radio four. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello, welcome. Today, romance adventure and cross-dressing in 18th century France, guilt and betrayal in post-war Japan, and tigers who aren't quite as good at arithmetic as they think. |
| 0:55.7 | With me to introduce their choice of a good read are first the stand-up comic and writer Bob Mills, |
| 1:01.7 | star of such TV shows as In Bed with Medina and Winlose or Draw |
| 1:06.4 | and the scriptwriter for, among others, the movie Pierpoint. |
| 1:10.2 | Bob's also a regular on Radio 5's somewhat anarchically competitive sports quiz, |
| 1:15.2 | Fighting Talk. |
| 1:16.4 | And it so happens that my other guest is the presenter, |
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