Nick Hornby & Carlo Rovelli

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Author Nick Hornby and Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Viv Albertine, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Tobias Wolf.

‘Throw Away, Unopened’ by Viv Albertine. Publisher: Faber

‘White Nights’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher: Penguin

‘Old School’ by Tobias Wolff Publisher: Bloomsbury

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 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.
0:52.6	Hello, it's great to be back, not least because with me
0:55.4	today is first the best-selling author Nick Hornby, whose multiplicity of books includes
1:00.8	high fidelity, about a boy and how to be good, and among whose screenwriting credits are the film
1:06.3	Brooklyn and last year's TV series State of the Union. Nick's joined by the theoretical physicist Carlo Roveli,
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