Sally Lindsay and Jonathan Harvey
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Actress Sally Lindsay and playwright Jonathan Harvey join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Sue Townsend, Christopher Douglas and Angela Carter.
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend Publisher: Puffin
I, An Actor, by Nicholas Craig. (Written by Christopher Douglas and Nigel Planer). Publisher: Methuen
Wise Children by Angela Carter Publisher: Vintage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 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. |
| 0:33.1 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:36.8 | Hello, today's Sue Townsend, Angela Carter, and an ordinary working actor, a mere vagabond |
| 0:43.9 | barometer of the human condition. With me to introduce their good read are the playwright |
| 0:49.2 | Jonathan Harvey, whose wealth of work includes the TV sitcom Gimmy, Gimmy,my and the play and film Beautiful Thing and who's currently a core writer on Coronation Street. |
| 1:00.3 | Speaking of which, here with him is the actress Sally Lindsay, probably best known as Corrie's much-loved barmaid Shelley Unwin. |
| 1:08.0 | More recently, her TV roles have included Kath Agnew in Still Open All Hours. |
| 1:13.5 | Sally, would you start us off? What is your choice of a good read? Well, my choice is the |
| 1:19.1 | growing pains of Adrian Mull, which was written by Soudtows, and it was written in the early 80s. |
| 1:25.2 | And it followed on from the Secret Diary of Adrian Mull 13 and 3 quarters. |
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