Jonathan Safran Foer & Daliso Chaponda

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Writer Jonathan Safran Foer and comedian Daliso Chaponda join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Natalia Ginzburg, Richard Brautigan, Orson Scott Card.

The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg Translator: Dick Davis Publisher: Daunt Books

Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan Publisher: Canongate

Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card Publisher: Tor Books

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2020.

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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.
0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.7	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.
0:52.9	Hello, today I'm joined from New York by the author Jonathan
0:56.1	Saffron 4, whose internationally best-selling novels include extremely loud and incredibly close.
1:02.7	Everything is illuminated and here I am. His most recent non-fiction book, We Are the Weather,
1:09.6	Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, has just
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