Liz Carr and Kate Williams
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Actor Liz Carr and historian and writer, Kate William join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Penny Pepper, Murasaki Shikibu and Jenny Erpenbeck.
First In The World Somewhere by Penny Pepper Publisher: Unbound
Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu Publisher: Penguin [Translator: Richard Bowring]
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck [Translator: Susan Bernofsky) Publisher: Portobello Books
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.
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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 didn't 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. |
| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello with me today, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello, with me today, actor, comedian and activist Liz Carr, forensic examiner Clarissa Mullery in the BBC TV drama Silent Witness, series 22 of which she's in the process of filming. |
| 0:51.7 | Among much else, Liz is also creator-writer and star of the stage show |
| 0:55.9 | assisted suicide, the musical. With her is author and historian Professor Kate Williams, |
| 1:02.3 | whose nine books include four historical novels and five non-fiction histories. The latest of |
| 1:08.0 | these rival queens about Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots is just out. |
| 1:14.0 | Liz, would you start by telling us what your choice of a good read is? |
| 1:17.2 | Oh, it's such a pleasure to introduce a book called First in the World Somewhere by Penny Pepper. |
| 1:23.1 | And I like what it says on the front, the true adventures of a scribbler, siren, saucepot and pioneer. |
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