Nemone Metaxas and Raymond Antrobus

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

DJ and former athlete, Nemone Metaxas and deaf poet and educator Raymond Antrobus join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Patrick Modiano, Jay Bernard and Dolly Alderton.

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, Publisher: Penguin

Surge by Jay Bernard Publisher: Chatto & Windus

Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano Publisher: David R. Godine

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

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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.
0:53.7	Hello, today from Dolly Alderton, an internet dating in the 2010s via France under Nazi
0:59.5	occupation, to the still incendiary sparks from a house fire in 1980's New Cross.
1:05.5	With me to introduce their good read, our first, the DJ and radio and TV presenter, Nimone,
1:15.5	host most famously of Nimone's Electric Ladyland on BBC 6 Music.
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