Gillian Burke and Dee Caffari
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Gillian Burke and Dee Caffari discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Gillian picks 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer which explores the author's relationship with the natural world. Dee's choice is 'Turn the Ship Around' by L. David Marquet, which is a submarine Captain's account of how he changed the leadership style aboard the USS Santa Fe. Harriett's pick is 'O Caledonia' by Elspeth Barker, a darkly comic story of a perpetually misunderstood sixteen year old in Scotland.
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Toby Field
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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. |
| 0:33.3 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:35.0 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:38.2 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:42.5 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:48.7 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:52.4 | Hello, with me today's Springwatch presenter Jillian Burke, |
| 0:55.8 | who's worked as presenter, director or producer on many other natural history programs, |
| 1:00.7 | including most recently the BBC's Blue Planet UK. |
| 1:04.6 | Gillian is vice president of the Wildlife Trusts. |
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