Isy Suttie and Lolly Adefope

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Writer and actress, Isy Suttie and comedian, Lolly Adefope join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Ottessa Moshfegh, Meg Wolitzer and Carol Ann Duffy.

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh Publisher: Vintage

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Vintage

Meantime by Carol Ann Duffy Publisher: Picador

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 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.
0:38.4	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.
0:52.8	Today, what happens when women have had enough?
0:55.9	Some very different literary answers. And from before she became poet laureate, a Carol Ann Duffy
1:01.1	collection. With me to introduce their good read are two comedians. First, Izzy Suti,
1:06.7	among much else, a star of the Channel 4 sitcom Damned, a series regular on peep show and
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