Poorna Bell and Tony Law

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Writer Poorna Bell and comedian Tony Law join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by Banana Yoshimoto, Lissa Evans and Voltaire.

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (translator – Megan Backus) Publisher: Faber

Old Baggage by Lissa Evans Publisher: Black Swan

Candide by Voltaire (translator – Roger Pearson) Publisher: Oxford University Press

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2019.

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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.
0:38.7	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.
0:53.3	Hello, today from a Japanese kitchen via
0:56.1	Hampstead Heath to the somewhat disaster-prone global wanderings of a candid young 18th
1:01.5	century optimist. With me to introduce their good read are first the journalist Pornabelle,
1:06.9	author of two books, Chase the Rainbow, which looks at men and mental health through the lens of a personal tragedy,
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