Ria Lina and Otegha Uwagba

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The comedian Ria Lina - who's appeared on the BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You and Mock the Week - joins Otegha Uwagba - author of Little Black Book, Whites and We Need to Talk About Money - to talk to Harriett Gilbert about the books they love.

Ria chooses Moll Flanders, the 18th-century classic by Daniel Defoe. Otegha picks the popular romance story Like Water for Chocolate by Mexican author Laura Esquivel and Harriett Gilbert brings a book about motherhood; Making Babies by Anne Enright.

Produced by Eliza Lomas Comment on Instagram at @agoodreadbbc

Transcript

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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.
0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.7	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.4	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcast,
0:43.5	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:47.7	We don't always see eye to eye,
0:49.2	but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:52.6	Today, from an 18th century adventuress to a 21st century mother,
0:57.4	via love, death and a lot of food in Mexico.
1:01.0	With me to introduce their goodread are first the award-winning comedian Rialina,
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