Rick Edwards and George Lamb
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Presenters Rick Edwards and George Lamb join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by Dave Eggers, Jane Gardam and Yvon Chouinard.
Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers Publisher: Penguin
Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam Publisher: Abacus
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard Publisher: Penguin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017.
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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. |
| 0:33.4 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:38.2 | Hello today. Two women at the end of their tether, one in Alaska, one in Wimbledon. |
| 0:43.8 | And on a rather more global scale, have we maybe left it too late to save ourselves from extinction? |
| 0:49.2 | With me to introduce their good read, our journalist, screenwriter and presenter Rick Edwards, host of BBC One's |
| 0:55.7 | daytime quiz show Impossible and with Dr Michael Brooks of the podcast Science-ish. |
| 1:02.0 | A book inspired by that series, Science-ish, The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies, came out last |
| 1:07.8 | month. With Rick, another presenter, George Lamb, |
| 1:11.0 | whose many programmes on TV and radio |
| 1:13.4 | have included E4's Big Brother's Little Brother |
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