Mark Radcliffe & Patricia Cumper

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Broadcaster Mark Radcliffe and playwright Patricia Cumper join Harriett Gilbert to nominate their favourite book by Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Strout and Helene Hanff. From 2020.

Beloved by Toni Morrison Publisher: Vintage

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Publisher: Viking

84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2020.

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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.
0:52.8	Hello, today, two American classics, one of them
0:55.7	Tony Morrison's beloved, and quite possibly a classic in waiting about a large, gruff, retired
1:01.5	schoolteacher in small town Maine. With me to introduce their goodread are first the musician,
1:07.0	author and radio presenter Mark Radcliffe, who also hosts music documentaries and festivals on television, and is a long-standing anchor of the BBC's coverage of Glastonbury.
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