Ricky Ross and Tom Heap
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross and Countryfile reporter Tom Heap - discuss favourite books by Philip Kerr, Ron Ferguson and Elizabeth Taylor.
March Violets by Philip Kerr (this edition is part of the Omnibus called Berlin Noir) Publisher: Penguin
Mole Under the Fence: Conversations with Roland Wallis by Ron Ferguson with Mark Chater Publisher: Saint Andrew Press
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor Publisher: Virago
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.3 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.6 | 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. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk slash radio four. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, welcome. Today's programme ranges widely from a religious commun in Scotland to blackmail and murder in Nazi Germany. |
| 0:50.8 | In between there's genteel poverty and old age in the Cromwell Road. |
| 0:55.3 | My guests are first the singer-songwriter Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue, whose latest solo album Trouble Came |
| 1:01.9 | Looking was released in April. Ricky is also a broadcaster who presents, among other programmes, |
| 1:06.9 | BBC Radio Scotland's Another Country with Ricky Ross. |
| 1:16.3 | And with him is Tom Heap, who presents the investigations on BBC TV's Country File. |
| 1:19.7 | You can also hear him on the Radio 4 programme costing the earth, |
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