John Inverdale and Rachel Cook
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - broadcaster, John Inverdale and journalist, Rachel Cooke - discuss favourite books by Jan Morris, George Orwell and Meg Wolitzer. Coronation Everest by Jan Morris Publisher: Faber and Faber
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Vintage
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell Publisher: Penguin Classics
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.
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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. |
| 0:33.3 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk |
| 0:40.6 | slash radio four. Hello, welcome today, a very angry poet, a wife who's reached the end of her tether and a mountain. |
| 0:49.7 | Joining me with their choice of a good read are the journalist Rachel Cook, award-winning writer for The Observer, TV reviewer for the New Statesman, whose first book called Her Brilliant Career, Ten Extraordinary Women of the 50s, was published just last week. And with Rachel, the TV and radio presenter John Inverdale, who for the last 15 years has been a judge of the William Hill Sportsbook |
| 1:11.1 | of the year, and he'll be announcing the 2013 winner live on front row here on Radio 4 in three |
| 1:16.6 | weeks' time, or to be precise, on Wednesday the 27th of November. |
| 1:21.7 | John, your choice of a good read could, I suppose, be called a sports book just about, but |
| 1:26.9 | it's clearly published many decades too long ago to qualify for William Hill. |
| 1:32.2 | Tell us what it is and why you love it. |
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