Sarah Keyworth & Lissa Evans

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Author Lissa Evans and comedian Sarah Keyworth join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Oliver Sacks, Cheryl Strayed and David Garnett.

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks Publisher: Picador

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Publisher: Atlantic Books

Lady into Fox by David Garnett Publisher: Dover Publications

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2020.

Transcript

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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.
0:33.7	Hello.
0:34.6	Today, an epic walk across desert, mountains and snow, the extraordinary childhood of Oliver Sacks and the trouble with being married to a fox.
0:44.3	With me to introduce their good read are first the author Lissa Evans, whose novels include the best-selling old baggage and crooked heart.
0:52.3	Lissa also writes for children and in a previous life as a TV producer won,
0:56.9	among other awards,
0:58.1	a Best Comedy BAFTA for Father Ted.
1:01.2	With Lissa is the comedian Sarah Keyworth,
1:03.6	whose debut stand-up show in Edinburgh
1:05.3	was nominated for Best Newcomer
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