Ruby Tandoh and Jake Yapp

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Jake Yapp and The Great British Bake Off contestant Ruby Tandoh join Harriett Gilbert to chat about books they love by René Goscinny, Nora Ephron and Ian McEwan.

Nicholas Again by René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé (Translated by Anthea Bell) Publisher: Phaidon

I Remember Nothing: and other reflections by Nora Ephron Publisher: Black Swan

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

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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.
0:33.2	Hello, this is Harriet Gilbert.
0:35.2	You've downloaded the A Good Read podcast with Ruby Tando and Jake Yap.
0:40.5	Hello, today, the shock of getting old and other thoughts from the late Nora Ephron,
0:45.6	a honeymoon disaster in Dorset, and a well-intentioned if somewhat pugilistic little French schoolboy.
0:52.2	With me to introduce their good read, our first the comedian Jake Yap,
0:56.2	currently hosting TV program The Hirting on Dave.
1:00.0	Jake's condensed satires include Radio 4 in 4 minutes,
1:04.0	and coming up later in the year on Radio 4 is
1:07.3	Jake Yap saves humanity in 28 minutes.
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