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A Good Read

Jacqueline Wilson and Richard Osman

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2848 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - children's author, Dame Jacqueline Wilson and TV presenter Richard Osman - discuss their favourite books by Michael Frayn, Shena MacKay and Per Petterson.

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

Publisher: Vintage Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn

Publisher: Faber and Faber

The Orchard on Fire by Shena MacKay

Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Things just swirling around my head.

0:03.6

Am I really the product of this?

0:06.3

Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.

0:11.0

Little did I know what more was to come.

0:13.5

I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift,

0:17.6

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.

0:33.2

Thanks for downloading a good read.

0:35.4

You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk slash radio four.

0:43.6

Hello, welcome. Today, childhood heartache and in 1960s Fleet Street, the farce of imminent middle age.

0:51.3

Here with me to share their choice of a good read are Richard Osmond, creative

0:54.9

director at production company Endemol, scriptwriter, and many would argue most importantly,

1:00.2

co-host of the BBC's massively popular quiz show, Pointless. And with Richard, it's the

1:06.0

children's book author Dame Jacqueline Wilson. Jacqueline's probably best known for creating the rebellious, wildly imaginative

1:12.6

Tracy Beaker, star of several of her novels.

1:15.6

But in all, she's written in the region of 100 fictions for children and two volumes of

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