Kathy Burke and Tom Allen

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Theatre director/writer/actor Kathy Burke and comedian Tom Allen join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Patrick Hamilton, John Walters and Barbara Pym.

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton Publisher: Penguin

Role Models by John Walters Publisher: Macmillan

Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym Publisher: Macmillan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2017.

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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.
0:33.4	This is the BBC.
0:37.8	Hello, I'm joined today by Cathy Burke, theatre director, writer, actor, whose films
0:42.9	range from nil by mouth through Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy to Absolutely Fabulous the movie,
0:48.3	and whose wealth of TV work includes Walking and Talking, which she wrote and starred in
0:53.0	as Angry Nunn,
0:54.4	and perhaps most famously, Gimmy, Gimmy, Gimmy.
0:57.4	With Cathy, it's comedian Tom Allen,
0:59.4	who's appeared all over the place from live at the Apollo to loose ends and just a minute,
1:03.9	and whose roles as an actor include Young Pip in Radio 4's bleak expectations.
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