Damian Barr and Ben Fergusson

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Writers Damian Barr and Ben Fergusson recommend books to Harriett Gilbert. Damian chooses the second volume of Janice Galloway's memoir, All Made Up. Ben talks about The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen, and Harriett has gone for Hilary Spurling's biography of Sonia Orwell, The Girl from the Fiction Department.

Producer Sally Heaven

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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.
0:33.3	Hello, joining me today, Damian Barr, writer and broadcaster, author of the award-winning memoir, Maggie and me,
0:40.3	and most recently a debut novel. You will be safe here.
0:44.0	Damien's TV programmes include the Big Scottish Book Club, now in its fourth series,
0:48.7	and is the creator and host of the worldwide Literary Salon.
0:52.7	With him is Ben Ferguson,
0:55.2	whose trilogy of novels
0:56.2	set in the same Berlin apartment block
0:58.2	at different times in the 20th century,
1:00.7	culminated in 2019's An Honest Man.
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