Sarah Hadland and Russell Tovey

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actors Sarah Hadland and Russell Tovey join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Annie Proulx, Quentin Crisp and Muriel Barbery.

Close Range: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx Publisher: Harper Perennial

The Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Translator: Alison Anderson Publisher: Gallic

The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp Publisher: Flamingo

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2019.

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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 didn't 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.
0:34.3	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:37.9	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.
0:47.2	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:51.8	With me today, two actors. Russell Tovey currently stars in the US FBI drama
0:56.9	Quantico. His many other TV roles include the Werewolf George Sands in Being Human and on stage
1:03.4	his career ranges from the history boys to the recent Pinter at the Pinter season. Russell is in the
1:09.0	process of filming the forthcoming BBC TV drama
1:11.7	years and years. With him is Sarah Hadland, perhaps best known to TV audiences as Stevie, the
1:18.2	joke shop manager in Miranda. She also appeared opposite Russell in the job lot and most recently
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