Natalie Carter & Melissa Cummings-Quarry
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The two founders of Black Girls Book Club, Natalie Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf and Zora N Hurston.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker Publisher: Orion
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher: Virago
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Publisher: Vintage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.
Transcript
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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. Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. |
| 0:40.2 | 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. |
| 0:53.4 | Hello, it's lovely to be back and joined today, albeit for our remote technology by the co-founders |
| 0:59.9 | of Black Girls Book Club, a collective they established four years ago to celebrate black women |
| 1:05.3 | and their contribution to literature. They are Natalie Carter and Melissa Cummings Quarry. And besides hosting events with authors |
| 1:13.7 | such as Bernardine Everisto and Mallory Blackman, they also have their own book in the pipeline, |
| 1:18.9 | a non-fiction book for children called Grown, The Black Girl's Guide to Growing Up. That's Grown with a |
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