Kate Silverton and Johnnie Walker
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert. and her guests - BBC Radio 2 presenter, Johnnie Walker and BBC newsreader, Kate Silverton talk about their favourite books by Robert M Pirsig, Georgina Howell and Barbara Pym. Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig Publisher: Vintage
Daughter of the Desert - the Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Publisher: Virago
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. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk |
| 0:40.9 | slash radio four. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello, welcome. We're off on three very different road trips today on horse and camel across Arabia, |
| 0:49.4 | on a motorbike through the US and on foot to have tea with the vicar. |
| 0:53.5 | Joining me with their choice of a good read are the veteran DJ Johnny Walker, |
| 0:57.8 | who began broadcasting in the 1960s on pirate radio ships, |
| 1:01.8 | then joined BBC Radio 1, championing artists such as Lou Reed, Elton John and The Eagles, |
| 1:07.7 | and in 1999 Radio 2, where today he presents sounds of the 70s on Sunday afternoons. |
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