Professor Mark Miodownik and Diana Henry

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Food writer, Diana Henry and Materials engineer/presenter Mark Miodownik join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Gabrielle Hamilton, Flann O'Brien and Elizabeth Taylor.

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton Publisher: Vintage

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien Publisher: Harper Perennial

The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2018.

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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.
0:33.3	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:34.7	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:38.1	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:42.4	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:47.7	Hello, with me today, a scientist and a cook.
0:51.3	Diana Henry's 10 books include the best-selling a bird in the hand,
0:55.0	chicken recipes for every day and every mood,
0:57.6	and most recently, simple, effortless food, big flavours.
1:01.8	She's also a regular contributor on Culinary Matters to the Sunday Telegraph,
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