Loyd Grossman and Skin

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Food lover Loyd Grossman and singer Skin from rock band Skunk Anansie join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by W Somerset Maugham, Colston Whitehead and Kapka Kassabova.

Cakes and Ale by W Somerset Maugham Publisher: Vintage

The Underground Railroad by Colston Whitehead Publisher: ‎Fleet

Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story by Kapka Kassabova. Publisher: Portobello Books

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 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 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.
0:33.3	This is the BBC.
0:38.3	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.3	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.3	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:47.3	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:52.3	Hello, with me today are Lloyd Grossman, presenter of
0:56.1	among other TV programs through the Keyhole and Master Chef, creator of a successful food brand,
1:02.7	chairman of the Royal Parks, and a guitarist whose band The New Forbidden, made their seventh
1:08.6	appearance at St. Glastonbury last summer. And with Lloyd, a woman
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