Rachel Brown-Finnis and Anna Bogutskaya
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner, chosen by Anna Bogutskaya SKATING TO ANTARTICA by Jenni Diski, chosen by Harriett Gilbert THINKING ON MY FEET by Kate Humble, chosen by Rachel Brown-Finnis
Critic, author and podcaster Anna Bogutskaya chooses musician Michelle Zauner's account of growing up as one of the few Asian-American children in Eugene, Oregon, Crying in H Mart, which details her complex relationship with her mother.
Former England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis picks Kate Humble's book Thinking on My Feet. It's a book about travel, the outside world, and the act of putting one foot in front of another. Rachel came to it in lockdown and loved the opportunity to virtually go on so many walks with Kate.
Harriett's choice is Jenni Diski's account of a trip she took to the frozen south, but as ever with Diski it is a journey that is accompanied by reflections on the defining moments of her childhood and adult life, in Skating to Antarctica.
Presenter: Harriett Gilbert Producer: Toby Field for BBC Audio Bristol
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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. |
| 0:27.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.4 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:38.9 | Hello, if you're wondering what to read next, |
| 0:41.3 | here with me to tempt you with their suggestions, |
| 0:43.5 | our first former footballer Rachel Brown-Finnis. |
| 0:46.5 | Rachel played in goal more than 80 times for England |
| 0:49.4 | and played at club level for Liverpool and Everton. |
| 0:53.0 | Now a football pundit, she regularly broadcasts on |
| 0:55.6 | the BBC. With her is the film critic Anna Boggutskaya. Anna's multifaceted career includes having |
| 1:02.2 | programmed films for the BFI and now hosting the Final Girls podcast. Her first book, |
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