Lisa Jewell & Aditya Chakrabortty

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Author Lisa Jewell and economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by Amit Chaudhuri, Liz Nugent and Rose Tremain.

Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri Publisher: Oneworld

Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent Publisher: Penguin

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2019.

Photo credit: Andrew Whitton

Transcript

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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.
0:27.5	Then you met.
0:28.3	Then we met.
0:29.2	The Gift.
0:30.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.7	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.
0:53.2	Hello, today, mothers, music, murderous rage,
0:57.3	three very different good reads. And with me to introduce them, our first, the best-selling
1:01.9	author Lisa Jewel, whose 17 novels include Ralph's Party and, more recently, such dark
1:08.1	psychological thrillers as Then She Was Gone, and this year's The Family Upstairs.
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