Fiona Shaw & Nicola Coughlan
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Irish actors Fiona Shaw and Nicola Coughlan join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Jon Ronson, Joan Didion and Dorothy M Hughes.
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson Publisher: Picador
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy M Hughes Publisher: Penguin
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Publisher: Fourth Estate
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2020.
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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. |
| 0:33.1 | Hello, today, two actors, two Irish actors. |
| 0:37.1 | Fiona Shaw is, I suppose, most widely known as Mrs Dursley in the Harry Potter films, |
| 0:41.8 | but her theatre and TV roles range impressively from Richard II, Electra and Medea on stage to ruthless Carolyn Martins in the BBC drama Killing Eve, |
| 0:52.4 | and a brief but unforgettable appearance as Fleabag's |
| 0:56.1 | therapist. With Fiona is Nicola Cochland, Claire Devlin in the Channel 4 Netflix comedy Derry Girls, |
| 1:03.4 | season two of which is up for a Best Comedy Award at this year's BAFTAs. Most recently, |
| 1:08.1 | Nicola's been filming the period drama Bridgeton to be released later this year. |
| 1:13.6 | Fiona Shaw, would you start us off? What is your choice of a good read? |
| 1:18.3 | Well, I've chosen a book that has been around for a long time, which is slouching towards |
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