Jessica Fostekew and Molly Naylor
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Jessica chooses The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science, by Will Storr, provoking a discussion about whether you can empathise with someone, no matter what they believe. Harriett loves The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell, leading to speculation about which of them would be sent to an asylum had feminism not moved things on somewhat. Writer Molly's choice of You're Not Listening by Kate Murphy causes everyone to listen attentively to what the others are saying. Producer Sally Heaven
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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. |
| 0:33.4 | Hello, today's some heretical ideas and why we do well to listen to them. |
| 0:38.1 | With me to introduce their good read are comedian, actor and writer Jessica Fosterkew, |
| 0:43.2 | host of two popular podcasts, The Guilty Feminist and Hoovering, |
| 0:47.4 | and a guest on any number of BBC 2 and Radio 4 comedy programmes. |
| 0:51.8 | As an actor, she's most recently appeared in The Trouble with Maggie Cole |
| 0:55.6 | and Out of Her Mind. With Jessica is the poet, scriptwriter, performer and director Molly Nela, |
| 1:02.7 | co-creator of the Sky One comedy After Hours. Molly is also the author with Lizzie Stewart |
| 1:08.0 | of an award-winning graphic novel, Lights, Planets, People, |
| 1:11.8 | and her third poetry collection, whatever you've got, comes out in April. |
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