Meera Syal and Stephen Grosz
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actor and writer, Meera Syal and psychoanalyst and author, Stephen Grosz - discuss favourite books by Anton Chekov, Katherine Boo and Agatha Christie.
The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories (1896-1904) by Anton Chekhov Publisher: Penguin Classics
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo Published: Portobello Books
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie Publisher: HarperCollins
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 |
| 0:40.5 | slash radio four. Hello, welcome to all kinds of wrongdoing from fictional adultery in Crimea and murder in Bexhill on Sea to distressingly real poverty and corruption in a Mumbai slum. |
| 0:54.5 | Here with me to introduce their good read are first the award-winning actress, comedian and writer, Mirra Sayal. |
| 1:01.3 | Mirr's TV work includes the Kumars at number 42 and, goodness gracious me. |
| 1:06.0 | She's written for and or appeared on the big screen and stage, |
| 1:10.5 | one of her more recent performances, |
| 1:12.0 | being as Beatrice in the RSC's, much ado about nothing, |
| 1:15.1 | and currently she's finishing her third novel. |
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