Melanie Reid and Andrew Cotter

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Columnist Melanie Reid adores This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway, a tragicomic account of her turbulent childhood in mid-century Scotland. Presenter Harriett Gilbert thinks John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a true masterpiece, and sports broadcaster (and famous dog owner) Andrew Cotter recommends The Wild Places by fellow mountain-lover Robert Macfarlane.

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Sarah Goodman.

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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.
0:53.5	Hello, today, classic John LeCarr and the wild places of Britain, among them
0:58.7	young Janice Galloway's family. With me to introduce their good read are first the broadcaster
1:03.9	Andrew Cotter, who for the BBC covers a range of sports including golf, tennis, athletics and
1:09.6	the boat race. He's also the owner of Labrador's
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