Things just swirling around my head.

Am I really the product of this?

Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.

Little did I know what more was to come.

I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift,

we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.

They didn't know that I was different.

You had kids together.

Yeah.

Then you met.

Then we met.

The Gift.

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BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, today's some lesser-known Terry Pratchett, some lesser-known Mervyn Peake, and a hard-boiled private eye sorting out a poisonous city.

With me to introduce their good read, our first, the comedian Lucy Porter, a familiar face on TV panel shows such as QI and Mock the Week, and a regular on Radio 4's news quiz and The Now Show. Her latest stand-up show passes on towards the UK this spring. With Lucy is Frank Cotrell-Boyce, a scriptwriter for numerous TV dramas, including Doctor Who, and films such as a cock and bull story,

and goodbye Christopher Robin. His many novels for children include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies

Again and most recently Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth. Frank, would you start us off? What is your

choice of a good read? I've chosen Truckers by Terry Pratchett, which is the first part of his Bromeliad trilogy.

It's the story of some gnomes who live in a big department store, and the slogan of that store is everything under one roof.

And they've kind of made that into their religion, which is that they believe there's nothing outside the store,

therefore logically there's nothing outside the store. The store is everything. And then

they're visited by some other gnomes who are from outside. And so they have this huge kind of

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