Lauren Mayberry and Rob Deering
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
CHVRCHES frontwoman Lauren Mayberry and comedian and writer Rob Deering are Harriett Gilbert's guests this week. Rob picks a staple of the literary canon, 'Mansfield Park' by Jane Austen, a frothier read than perhaps anyone remembers featuring the "Indiana Jones of 19th century social graces”. Lauren chooses the Japanese dystopian novel 'The Memory Police' by Yōko Ogawa, which she says draws parallels with the political realities of today. 'Kiss Myself Goodbye' by Ferdinand Mount is Harriett's choice in which Mount searches for the truth behind his mysterious Aunt Munca, uncovering a history of deceptions, false identities and abandonment.
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, |
| 0:38.2 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:42.5 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:48.5 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:52.6 | Hello, today, something for everyone, I think, from Jane Austen, |
| 0:56.1 | via a creepy dystopian novel from Japan, |
| 0:59.0 | to a family memoir featuring a liar of awe-inspiring proportions. |
| 1:03.5 | And with me to introduce their good read, |
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