Mark Ravenhill and DJ Nihal
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - playwright, Mark Ravenhill and DJ, Nihal Arthanayake - discuss favourite books by James Ellroy, Nadine Gordimer and Wolfgang von Goethe.
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Publisher: Oxford World Classics
American Tabloid by James Ellroy Publisher: Windmill Books
July's People by Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Bloomsbury
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 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 |
| 0:40.5 | slash Radio 4. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello, welcome. Today's slees, violence and corruption in the USA, revolution in South Africa, |
| 0:50.0 | adulterous passion in 19th century Germany. And here to introduce their choice of a good read |
| 0:55.3 | are the dramatist Mark Ravenhill, currently playwright in residence for the Royal Shakespeare |
| 1:00.1 | Company and whose works include most recently the Voltaire-inspired Candide, also pool, no water, |
| 1:07.2 | Mother Clap's Molly House, and the one with the title, I Can't Repeat on on air but let's just say it's about sex and shopping. |
| 1:13.7 | Mark's currently writing a libretto for the Norwegian National Opera. |
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