Lynne Truss and Diran Adebayo
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - writers Lynne Truss and Diran Adebayo discuss their favourite books by Paul Theroux, Nick Barlay and Michael Ondaatje
Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux Publisher: Penguin
Hooky Gear by Nick Barlay Publisher: Sceptre
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje Publisher: Bloomsbury
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.3 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.6 | 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. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk slash radio four. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello, welcome today, violent crime in London, a piano playing polecat in Sri Lanka, and a literary friendship of sorts across five continents. |
| 0:55.7 | With me to talk about all this are first, Dirae Adabio, an author whose novels include the Multiple Prize winning some |
| 1:01.4 | kind of black, who's also written for radio and TV, and who's currently working on a sports-based |
| 1:07.3 | memoir. And Dera, apparently, as a child, among all the famous fives and the Jennings books, |
| 1:14.5 | sport books, I mean, non-fiction sports books, well, what you read? What, wisdoms? What are we talking |
| 1:19.8 | about? Not wisdoms. I've certainly read a lot of cricket books, but they were mainly accounts of |
| 1:25.5 | tours, you know, accounts of, you know, test tours in the 60s and the 70s and the 80s, and also biographies of various sportsmen. |
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