Nish Kumar and Katy Brand
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Comedians Katy Brand and Nish Kumar join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Philip Roth, Reni Eddo-Lodge and Christopher Reid.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Publisher: Vintage
Why I'm No Longer Speaking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Publisher: Bloomsbury
A Scattering by Christopher Reid Publisher: Arete Books
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017.
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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. |
| 0:27.4 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.4 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello, today, a novel once described as the most outrageously funny book about sex yet written, but will we all find it funny? |
| 0:45.3 | With me today are the actor-writer and comedian Katie Brand, whose most recent solo shows have included, |
| 0:51.3 | I was a teenage Christian and I could have been an astronaut. She's |
| 0:55.4 | appeared in films and in TV dramas such as the BBC's Map and Lucia and she has published |
| 1:01.1 | so far one novel. Brenda Monk is funny. With Katie as fellow stand-up and presenter Nish Kumar, |
| 1:08.2 | his series for BBC radio include most recently Spotlight Tonight and on TV, besides appearing on panel shows such as QI and Have I Got News View, is the host of BBC 2's satirical news programme, The Mash Report. |
| 1:22.5 | Katie Bran, could I ask you first, what's your choice of a good read? |
| 1:26.0 | My choice is Port Noise Complaint by Philip Roth. |
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