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A Good Read

Georgia Lewis Anderson and Owen Jones

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2848 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Georgia Lewis Anderson and writer Owen Jones join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Alan Hollinghurst, Sybille Bedford and Naomi Alderman.

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Publisher: Picador

The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford Publisher: Daunt Books

The Power by Naomi Alderman Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Things just swirling around my head.

0:03.6

Am I really the product of this?

0:06.1

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

This is the BBC.

0:38.6

Hello, today we've got politics and sex in the 1960s, the 1980s, and in a disturbing future world.

0:46.5

With me to introduce their good read are the writer Owen Jones, author most recently of The Establishment and how they get away with it, and a columnist for the Guardian newspaper,

0:57.5

and Georgia Lewis Anderson, or LA, journalist and broadcaster, presenter of web TV show The Fox Problem,

1:04.0

who, as someone with her finger on the pulse of British millennial life, currently advises technology brands such as Google,

1:10.4

on the scripts for their

1:11.4

artificial intelligence robot. Owen, would you start us? What's your choice of a good read?

1:17.4

So my choice is The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollingerhurst. I have to say, I find this quite

1:21.8

traumatic read in lots of ways. You know, I couldn't consciously remember the 1980s. I was born in

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