Robert Webb and Hugo Rifkind

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Comic actor and writer Robert Webb and award-winning journalist Hugo Rifkind join Harriett Gilbert to discuss some favourite books by Graham Swift, Douglas Adams and Sam Miller.

Waterland by Graham Swift. Publisher: Picador

Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams Publisher: Pan Books

Fathers to the table by Sam Miller Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018.

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.
0:27.4	Then you met.
0:28.3	Then we met.
0:29.2	The Gift.
0:30.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.3	This is the BBC.
0:38.3	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.3	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.3	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:47.3	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:52.3	Hello, it's good to be back and joined today by comedian, actor and writer Robert Webb,
0:57.9	whose TV work includes the comedy sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look,
1:02.2	and the sitcoms Peep Show and Back.
1:04.9	Robert's best-selling memoir, How Not to Be a Boy, has just come out in paperback.
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