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 did know that I was different.

You had kids together.

Yeah.

Then you met.

Then we met.

The Gift.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

This is the BBC.

Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.

Today, Beryl Bainbridge at her darkest, a young American woman

causing mayhem in Paris, and why our beliefs about how the world works may be disastrously blinked.

With me to introduce their good read are the writer John Higgs, whose books include Stranger

than We Can Imagine, an attempt to make sense of the 20th century,

and most recently Waddling Street, a journey along and a history of, one of the oldest roads in Britain.

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