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A Good Read

Sarah Phelps and Dane Baptiste

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2847 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Screenwriter Sarah Phelps and comedian Dane Baptiste talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love. Sarah chooses Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote, Harriett's pick is A View of the Harbour by (the other) Elizabeth Taylor and Dane defends Weapons of Mass Instruction, a critique of contemporary schooling by John Taylor Gatto. Please follow us on Instagram at @agoodreadbbc Producer Sally Heaven.

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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.

0:27.5

Then you met.

0:28.3

Then we met.

0:29.2

The Gift.

0:30.1

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:34.2

BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:38.7

Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.

0:40.4

Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,

0:43.6

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

0:47.9

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

0:53.2

Hello, today I'm joined by the screenwriter Sarah Phelps,

0:56.3

who's recently given us four chilling Agatha Christie TV adaptations.

1:01.0

She's also brought Dickens and J.K. rolling to the small screen,

1:04.5

written 90 plus episodes of EastEnders,

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