Eve Pollard and Julie Bindell

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - journalists Eve Pollard and Julie Bindel - talk about their favourite books by Richard Ford, Chinua Achebe and David Sedaris.

Canada by Richard Ford Publisher: Bloomsbury

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Publisher: Abacus

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.

Transcript

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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.
0:43.2	Hello, welcome to a clash of cultures as Christian missionaries descend on West Africa
0:47.8	and American teenagers uprooted to Canada.
0:51.1	And in France, another American struggles with a concept of nouns having a sex.
0:56.2	With me to introduce their good read
0:58.1	are the journalist, author and feminist campaigner Julie Bindle
1:02.0	who's reported on a range of subjects
1:04.1	from brothels in Nevada to Syrian refugee camps
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