Petroc Trelawny and Stuart MacBride
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The broadcaster Petroc Trelawny, host of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, and the crime writer Stuart MacBride, author of the bestselling Logan McRae and Ash Henderson crime thrillers, talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love.
Petroc's choice is dystopian JG Ballard novel The Drought, Stuart's is the Hollywood memoir by David Niven, The Moon's A Balloon, and Harriett's is Borges and Me by Jay Parini.
Produced by Eliza Lomas. Comment on instagram at @agoodreadbbc
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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. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, |
| 0:43.3 | where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:47.3 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello, today we've got a global catastrophe to which only lions seem indifferent, |
| 0:58.1 | a road trip with a blind Argentine author, and Hollywood in the heyday of the studios. |
| 1:04.0 | Joining me to share a book, They Love, are first the broadcaster Petroch Trelawney, |
| 1:08.3 | mainstay of Radio 3. Petroch not only presents their daily breakfast |
| 1:12.3 | programme, but for the last 21 seasons, he's introduced the BBC Proms on radio and television, |
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