Richard Harrington & Njambi McGrath

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor Richard Harrington and comedian Njambi McGrath join Harriett Gilbert to discuss books by Clive James, Chigozie Obioma and Hannelore Cayre.

Unreliable Memoirs by the late Clive James Publisher: Picador

The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma Publisher: One

The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre Publisher: Old Street Publishing

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

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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.
0:52.8	Hello, the late Clive James remembered via one of today's book choices, and with me to
0:57.9	introduce their good read are first the actor Richard Harrington, DCI Tom Matthias in Welsh
1:03.7	TV cop drama Hinterland and whose wealth of other TV works includes Wolfblood, Death in Paradise
1:10.0	and The Crown. His most recent stage appearance
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