Fern Britton and Katherine Grainger
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
TV presenter and novelist Fern Britton and Olympic gold medallist rower Katherine Grainger join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Harper Lee, Susan Hill and Alan Bennett.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Publisher: Arrow
The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill Publisher: Vintage
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Publisher: Profile Books and Faber & Faber
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 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 |
| 0:38.6 | BBC.co.uk slash radio four. Hello and welcome. Today we range from a child's eye view of |
| 0:46.7 | racial bigotry in the deep south via mysterious disappearances from a quiet English cathedral town |
| 0:52.6 | to Buckingham Palace, where the Queen's |
| 0:55.0 | acquired a new and worrying interest. With me to introduce their choice of a good read are |
| 1:00.2 | Britain's most successful international female rower, Catherine Granger, CBE, who having won silver |
| 1:06.3 | medals at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympics last year carried off Olympic gold in London. |
| 1:12.7 | Catherine's autobiography, Dreams Can Come True, was published this summer. |
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