Henry Normal & Bobby Seagull
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Maths genius Bobby Seagull and poet and comedy writer Henry Normal join presenter Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Richard Bach, Brian Bilston and William Golding.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Publisher: Thorsons
Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston Publisher: Picador
Lord of the Flies by William Golding Publisher: Faber
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.
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. |
| 0:27.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:38.7 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:40.4 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:43.6 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:47.9 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:52.3 | Today, an enlightened seagull, some dangerously unenlightened boys on an island and the |
| 0:58.1 | diary of a somebody. And here to champion their good read are first Henry Normal, poet, TV |
| 1:03.7 | producer, scriptwriter for Mrs. Merton and the Royal Family, among much else, and whose latest show |
| 1:08.9 | for Radio 4, A Normal Universe, airs next week. |
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