Sarah Hall and Owen Jones
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - writer Owen Jones and novelist Sarah Hall - discuss their favourite books by Robert Swindells, James Salter and Geoffrey Household.
Burning the Days by James Salter Publisher: Picador
Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells Publisher: Puffin
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household Publisher: Orion
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.3 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.6 | 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 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk |
| 0:40.6 | slash radio four. Hello, welcome to an action-packed program. Today we're scrabbling for survival after a nuclear holocaust, on the run from a sinister foreign agent, flying fighter planes in Korea and finding time for the |
| 0:55.5 | odd love affair. Here to introduce their choice of a good read are two writers. First, the journalist |
| 1:01.6 | and currently columnist for the independent, Owen Jones, whose book Chavs, the demonisation of the |
| 1:08.0 | working class, not only got lots of attention attention here but was chosen by the New York Times |
| 1:12.7 | as one of 2011's top ten |
| 1:14.9 | non-fiction books. Owen's |
| 1:16.9 | currently working on a study of the British establishment. |
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