Grace Dent and Sian Harries

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Grace Dent and comedy writer Sian Harries join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Max Porter, Lissa Evans and Barbara Pym.

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Publisher: Faber

Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans Publisher: Black Swan

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.

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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.
0:38.3	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.3	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.3	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:47.3	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:52.3	Today, an unlikely pair of wartime con artists, a family
0:56.4	smashed by grief, and that excellent woman, Barbara Pym. With me to introduce their good
1:02.2	read are the columnist, author, broadcaster and guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent, who among
1:07.6	her other activities currently presents the Radio 4 documentary series The Untold.
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