Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Writers Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Penelope Fitzgerald, Omar Robert Hamilton and Ysenda Maxtone Graham.
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald Publisher Harper Perennial
The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton Publisher Faber
Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools 1939-1979 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham Publisher Abacus
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.
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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. |
| 0:33.3 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:38.4 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:40.4 | 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. |
| 0:53.5 | Hello, with me today, the best-selling author Joanna Trollope, whose 21 novels include |
| 0:58.5 | The Rector's Wife, Marrying the Mistress, and Out just a couple of weeks ago, an unsuitable |
| 1:04.3 | match. |
| 1:05.7 | With Joanna A's poet and playwright Sabrina Mafuse, who last year edited the anthology |
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