Nina Sosanya and Joelle Taylor
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Actor Nina Sosanya and prize winning poet and writer Joelle Taylor talk favourite books with Harriett.
Nina chooses Sally Jones and the False Rose by Jakob Wegelius, a children's novel with a mute gorilla engineer as its protagonist. The book appeals to Nina's love of engineering, and the city of Glasgow!
Joelle nominates Booker Prize winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, about a man killed in the Sri Lankan civil war, seeking answers in the afterlife.
Harriett's choice is Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz, a novel set in the German countryside at the tail end of summer, featuring two women with mysterious back stories.
Two of the choices are novels in translation, which prompts a chat about whether translated books are becoming more common.
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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. |
| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, we've got more book suggestions, including the adventures of a seafaring gorilla |
| 0:44.0 | and a war photographer's quest to discover who murdered him. |
| 0:48.3 | With me to tell you about books they love are first the actor Nina Sasanya, |
| 0:52.3 | whose many TV appearances include W1A, |
| 0:55.2 | last tango in Halifax, |
| 0:56.8 | and most recently Baby Rainier. |
| 0:59.2 | Among other feature films, Nina starred in love, actually, |
| 1:02.2 | and the end we start from, |
| 1:04.1 | and last year she was on stage at the National |
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