Joanna Scanlan and Sabine Durrant
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
BAFTA winning actor Joanna Scanlan champions The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's tale of Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and US counter culture. Writer Sabine Durrant's favourite is Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, a simple but powerful story of a man's moral predicament in a small Irish community. Harriett enjoys Georgette Heyer's romance set in 1816, The Grand Sophy. 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. |
| 0:27.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.3 | Hello, today I'm joined by Joanna Scanlan, star on TV of The Larkins, Requiem, No Offence, and The Thick of It, among much else, |
| 0:41.6 | and whose most recent movie, After Love, has earned her both a British independent film award and a BAFTA for best actress. |
| 0:49.1 | With Joanna is journalist and author Sabine Durrant, whose twisty psychological thrillers include Lie With Me and coming out next month, sun damage, about a conwoman pretending to be a private chef in a French holiday villa. |
| 1:04.0 | Joanna Scanlan, would you start us off? What is your suggestion for a good read? |
| 1:08.6 | Well, my suggestion for a good read is Tom Wolfe's book of 1968, |
| 1:15.7 | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. And when you very kindly invited me to join you in this program, |
| 1:24.5 | I thought immediately, let's go to my favorite book, the electric Kool-Aid |
| 1:29.6 | acid test, which I had not actually read for 20 years. And as soon as I started again |
| 1:36.5 | to read it, I felt, oh my goodness, I'm going to have to back track here. This is a terrible |
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