Patience Agbabi and Andy Miller
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Poet Patience Agbabi and the writer and podcaster Andy Miller advocate for their favourite books. Andy wrote a memoir about reading fifty great books, so it can't have been an easy choice. He plumps for My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley. Patience loves The Animals in that Country, Laura Jean Mackay's novel which starts with a pandemic but soon moves in to less familiar territory. Harriett talks about A Month in Siena, Hisham Matar's memoir of art, architecture and life.
Producer Sally Heaven
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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 | Hello, today, Impossible Parents, Italian Art and Talking Animals. |
| 0:39.0 | And with me to introduce their good read, our first, the poet Patience Agbabi, |
| 0:43.2 | whose four collections include Telling Tales, a reimagining for the 21st century of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. |
| 0:50.0 | Patience has also written three books for children, of which the latest, the Circle Breakers, comes out in January. |
| 0:56.9 | With her is Andy Miller, author most recently of the Year of Reading Dangerously, |
| 1:01.9 | subtitled How 50 Great Books and Two Not So Great Ones Saved My Life. |
| 1:07.9 | Andy co-hosts the literary podcast backlisted and is a regular guest on BBC radio talking |
| 1:13.1 | about not only books but film and music. Patience Agbarby, would you start us off? What's your |
| 1:19.4 | choice of a good read? Well, I chose the animals in that country by Laura Jean McKay and I read it |
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