Kamal Ahmed and Brett Westwood

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Author and journalist Kamal Ahmed and naturalist and presenter Brett Westwood join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by by Michael Faber, James Baldwin and Ruth Rendell.

Under the Skin by Michel Faber Publisher: Canongate

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Publisher: Penguin

The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell. Publisher: Hutchinson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

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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.
0:52.9	Today we've got sinister goings on in the Scottish Highlands, murderous goings on in
0:57.4	Regents Park and racial unrest in 1940s Harlem.
1:01.7	With me to share their good read are Kamal Ahmed, editorial director of BBC News and author
1:06.8	of the recent memoir, The Life and Times of a Very British Man, which comes out in paperback
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