Michael Dobbs and Katie Puckrik
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - author, Michael Dobbs and broadcaster, Katie Puckrik - discuss favourite books by Kevin Myers, Jennifer Egan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Watching the Door - Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers Publisher: Atlantic
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Publisher: Corsair
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher: Penguin
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 slash radio four. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello, welcome to one of those programmes where you think, how could three books be so different? |
| 0:48.4 | Although maybe they do all have a certain kind of anger in common. We'll see if my guests agree. |
| 0:53.7 | And here with their choice of a good |
| 0:55.6 | read, they are Lord Dobbs of Wiley, otherwise known as Michael Dobbs, whose first novel, House of Cards, |
| 1:02.1 | became a massively popular BBC TV drama two decades ago, and now adapted for the US has just |
| 1:08.1 | won three Emmys. Michael's latest novel, A Ghost at the Door, came out a few weeks ago. |
| 1:14.3 | With Michael is the broadcaster, writer and performer Katie Puckrick, |
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