Katie Thistleton and Suzannah Lipscomb
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Radio 1 and CBBC presenter Katie Thistleton and historian and author Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books. Suzannah's choice is Nicci Gerrard's 'What Dementia Teaches Us about Love". Harriett opts for 'The Good Doctor' by Damon Galgut, and Katie's pick is 'And Now for the Good News' by Ruby Wax.
Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Toby Field
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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. |
| 0:33.1 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:35.1 | Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:48.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Has Ruby Wax got the tonic for our frazzled world? |
| 0:56.5 | One of many questions thrown up by today's good reads. |
| 0:59.7 | And joining me to grapple with these bookish conundrums is first the TV and radio presenter Katie Thistleton, |
| 1:05.9 | erstwhile host of the CBBC Book Club, among much else, currently presenter of Life Hacks on Radio One. |
| 1:13.2 | Katie's an ambassador for the mental health charity's Young Minds and Place to Be, |
| 1:17.6 | and the author of Dear Katie, Real Problems, Real Advice. |
| 1:22.3 | With her is the historian, author and broadcaster Susanna Lipscomb, |
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