Nicholas Lezard & Gwyneth Williams

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and author Nicholas Lezard and former BBC Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Samuel Beckett, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa and Sigrid Nunez.

Nicholas chooses Watt by Samuel Beckett Publisher: Faber

Gwyneth chooses: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher: Vintage

Harriett champions The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 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 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.
0:53.2	Hello, today a Sicilian leopard, a grieving Great Dane, and a novel, the writing of which
0:59.1	kept Samuel Beckett sane. The effect on readers is less clear-cut.
1:04.1	With me to introduce their good read are Nicholas Lezzard, who's published two volumes of his
1:08.8	new statesman Down andand-out column,
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