Jane Hill & Derek Owusu

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jane Hill chooses The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale, and Harriett's choice, Murder in Notting Hill by Mark Olden, takes place a hundred years later, in a very different part of British society. Derek Owusu isn't sure whether Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzerald really is a good read after all. Producer Sally Heaven Get involved on Instagram: @agoodreadbbc

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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 didn't 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.
0:34.4	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.7	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.5	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.
0:52.9	Hello, today I'm joined by the BBC News at one presenter Jane Hill, who's reported for TV
0:58.3	news on such high-profile stories as the terrorist attack at London Bridge, the Grenfell Tower
1:03.6	Fire, the US presidential elections, the disappearance of Madeline McCann in Portugal.
1:09.4	Among much else, Jane also hosts a film review with Mark
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