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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, an enlightened seagull, some dangerously unenlightened boys on an

island and the diary of a somebody. And here to champion their good read, our first Henry

normal, poet, TV producer, scriptwriter for Mrs. Merton and the Royal Family, among much else,

and whose latest show for Radio 4, A Normal Universe, airs next week.

Henry is also in the middle of a live poetry tour, The Escape Plan,

and the book of the show is out this month.

With him is Bobby Seagull, School Maths Teacher,

co-presenter of the TV series Monkman and Seagull's Genius Guide,

a columnist for the Financial Times and the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers.

If you're a fan of University Challenge, you'll also remember his exuberant captaincy of the Emanuel College team.

Henry Normal, if you would start, what is your

choice of a good read? My choice is Brian Bilston, Diary of a Somebody. I met Brian Bilston on

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