Sathnam Sanghera and Hadley Freeman
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Columnists and authors Hadley Freeman and Sathnam Sanghera join Harriett Gilbert to their discuss favourite books by Melissa Bank, David Szalay and Junichiro Tanizaki.
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank Publisher: Penguin
Spring by David Szalay Publisher: Vintage
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki. Publisher: Daunt Books
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2018.
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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. |
| 0:22.7 | 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. |
| 0:33.9 | Hello, today men and women get together, fall in love, fall out of love, decide they're better off with the cat. And here with their choice of good read are two writers. Satnam Sangera, columnist and feature writer for The Times, whose memoir The Boy with the Top Knot was adapted as a BBC drama, and whose first novel is called Marriage Material. |
| 0:55.5 | And Hadley Freeman, staff writer at The Guardian. |
| 0:58.4 | She's the author among other books of Be Awesome, Modern Life for Modern Ladies, |
| 1:03.3 | and most recently her love letter to 1980s movies, Life Moves Pretty Fast. |
| 1:09.3 | Hadley Freeman, what is your suggestion for a good read? |
| 1:13.1 | So my pick is The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank, which I love very dearly. |
| 1:19.2 | It was a huge publishing sensation when it came out in the States, kind of in the way that Bridger Jones's diary was when it came out here. |
| 1:25.4 | And they actually came out at the same time. |
| 1:27.3 | And I would say |
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