Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - authors Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin - discuss their favourite books by Robert Roberts, Rudyard Kipling and Angela Carter.
A Ragged Schooling by Robert Roberts Publisher: Manchester University Press
Kim by Rudyard Kipling Publisher: Penguin Books
Wise Children by Angela Carter Publisher: Vintage Books
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 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 BBC.co.uk |
| 0:40.9 | slash radio four. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello, welcome with me today on a good read of the journalist and novelist Moni Moseyn and the educator and author Javez Finn. |
| 0:51.2 | Javez has been a teacher, a school's inspector, an educational consultant and a |
| 0:55.7 | professor of education. His writing ranges from academic texts through to poetry, but he's |
| 1:01.3 | probably best known for his autobiographical novels, including the other side of the dale, |
| 1:06.2 | the heart of the dales, and his most recent last year's trouble at the Little Village School. |
| 1:12.0 | The first book, Jervais, remembers, reading is The Selfish Giant. |
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