Juno Dawson and Pandora Sykes
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Writers Juno Dawson and Pandora Sykes join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Francoise Sagan, William Gibson and Laura Barnett.
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan Publisher: Penguin
Neuromancer by William Gibson Publisher: Gollancz
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 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, today we've got cyberpunk, a fatal summer holiday and a story of love and life |
| 0:44.0 | in three different versions. With me to introduce their good read are the novelist |
| 0:48.3 | Juno Dawson, whose fictions include Margot and me, spot the difference and most recently |
| 0:53.7 | clean. |
| 0:55.0 | TV writes in Juno's memoir, The Gender Games, have just been optioned by Benedict Cumberbatch's production company, Sunny March. |
| 1:02.8 | With her is journalist Pandora Sykes, who's written on culture, society, fashion and celebrity, for among other publications, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph and Vogue Australia. |
| 1:14.1 | She currently co-hosts with Dolly Alderton, the weekly pop culture slash news podcast, The High Low. |
| 1:21.7 | Do you know, D'Ulson, would you like to start us off with your good read? What is it? |
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