Neil Oliver & Neil Forsyth
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Author Neil Forsyth and historian Neil Oliver join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by John Lewis-Stempel, Alexander Masters and Sara Paretsky.
The Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel Publisher Doubleday
Stuart a Life Backwards by Alexander Masters Publisher Fourth Estate
Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky Publisher Hodder
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.
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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 didn't 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. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:43.3 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:47.3 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello, today could be tricky because both my guests |
| 0:55.4 | are Scottish men called Neil, but at least the books they've chosen as a good read are markedly |
| 1:00.9 | different. So, on my right is Neil Oliver, presenter of among much else the TV series Coast, |
| 1:08.2 | a history of Scotland and rise of the clans. A qualified archaeologist is also the |
| 1:13.4 | author of ten books, including most recently The Story of the British Isles in 100 places. With |
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