Duncan Campbell and Mark Hodkinson
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Writers Duncan Campbell and Mark Hodkinson discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Duncan chooses the Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm, a book on the ethics of journalism with a very provocative opening sentence. Mark has gone for Contempt, Italian novelist Alberto Moravia's portrait of a disintegrating marriage. Harriett stays in Italy and introduces The Beautiful Summer by César Pavese, a coming-of-age novel set in the 1930s.
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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. |
| 0:27.4 | 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, it's good to be back and joined today by two writers. |
| 0:39.1 | Duncan Campbell was for many years crime correspondent and Los Angeles correspondent for The Guardian. His most recent books about crime |
| 0:45.1 | include We'll All Be Murdered in Our Beds and Underworld the definitive history of Britain's |
| 0:51.5 | organised crime. Duncan is also the author of two novels. |
| 0:56.3 | With him is Mark Hodkinson, a writer for The Times, among other publications, |
| 1:00.7 | whose non-fiction books include Blue Moon, Now and Among the Dead Men with Manchester City, |
| 1:05.9 | and this year's No One Round Here reads Tolstoy. Mark also owns a publishing house, Pomona books, |
| 1:12.1 | and his Radio 4 programmes have included so many books, so little time. |
| 1:17.9 | Well, we've got just under half an hour and three books to talk about, |
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