Jack Thorne and Peter Kosminsky
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST by Iain Pears, chosen by Peter Kosminsky HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING by Will Arbery, chosen by Jack Thorne PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico, chosen by Harriett Gilbert
Thorne and Kosminsky are great friends, but don't fully agree on the books discussed. Topics raised by their choices include toxic masculinity, empathy, and whether or not Succession is a great TV series.
Peter has chosen An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, a restoration murder mystery told by four unreliable narrators. Jack advocates for Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery, a play about four right-wing Catholics meeting at a college reunion. Harriett has gone for Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, a satire telling the tale of a millennial couple living in fashionable Berlin.
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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. |
| 0:34.3 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, we're back with more book ideas. |
| 0:42.2 | Today's suggestions coming from two of the leading lights of TV drama. |
| 0:46.2 | The playwright Jack Thorne is certainly best known right now |
| 0:48.9 | for his Netflix miniseries adolescence. |
| 0:51.5 | But his long list of credits also includes the BBC adaptation of his |
| 0:55.1 | dark materials, the stage play, the motive and the cue, and scripts for the Anola Holmes |
| 1:00.2 | movies of which number three is in production. With Jack is the drama director and writer Peter |
| 1:06.0 | Cosminsky. His corneucopia of credits includes directing the BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantell's Wolf Hall trilogy, |
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