Naomi Alderman and Abi Dare
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini, chosen by Abi Dare THE FIRE NEXT TIME by James Baldwin, chosen by Harriett Gilbert DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS by Julie Schumacher, chosen by Naomi Alderman
The Power author Naomi Alderman, and Nigerian writer Abi Dare discuss favourite books. Naomi chooses Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher, a series of hilarious letters written by a beleaguered academic. Abi champions A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini's tale of two women in Taliban governed Afghanistan and Harriett recommends James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, two immensely powerful essays.
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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. |
| 0:27.4 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.3 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, you like books, we like books. |
| 0:42.1 | And we're each going to recommend one we like in particular. |
| 0:45.4 | It's possible that three of us have very different tastes, of course, let's see. |
| 0:49.3 | With me today are two authors. |
| 0:51.3 | Naomi Alderman's novels include The Power, winner of the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction, |
| 0:56.6 | and more recently the future, now out in paperback. |
| 1:00.1 | Naomi is also a video games designer, |
| 1:02.7 | her work including the smartphone exercise adventure game, |
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