4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Sarah Phelps and Dane Baptiste talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love.
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0:46.3 | 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. |
0:51.3 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great |
0:54.2 | reading suggestions here. Hello, today I'm joined by the screenwriter Sarah Phelps, who's |
1:00.2 | recently given us four chilling Agatha Christie TV adaptations. She's also brought Dickens and |
1:06.0 | J.K. Rowling to the small screen, written 90 plus episodes of EastEnders, and worked as a dresser for the Royal Shakespeare Company. |
1:14.1 | Her fifth Christie adaptation, The Pale Horse, will be broadcast this spring. |
1:19.1 | With Sarah is the comedian Dame Baptiste, writer and star of BBC 3 sitcom Sunny Dee, |
1:25.0 | host of the podcast Dame Baptiste Questions Everything, and who next week starts a |
1:29.9 | nationwide tour of his new show, The Chocolate Chip. |
1:34.0 | Sarah, folks, would you start us off? |
1:35.9 | What's your choice of a good read? |
1:37.6 | My choice is Truman Capote's Music for Chameleons. |
1:41.8 | And one of the things I really love about this book is that it's a mixture |
1:47.4 | of fiction and nonfiction in that there are some short stories. There is a dazzling, absolutely |
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