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Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great

reading suggestions here. Hello, with me today is the novelist Sarah Perry, best-selling author of

The Essex Serpent. After me comes the flood and, just out in paperback, Melmouth. With Sarah

is the comedian Russell Kane, best known for the BBC Sounds podcast, Evil Genius,

and his Boys Don't Cry podcast.

Russell's currently on tour with his show, The Fast and the Curious,

and he has just published a memoir, son of a silverback.

Russell, would you start us off?

Your choice of a good read is.

It is Under the Net by Iris Murdoch, which I first read when I was at university.

When I was at uni, it's not much different now, sadly.

A lot of the novelists on the syllabus were male or American and all that.

And not because I was trying to be all clever and feminist.

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