Scarlett Curtis and Catherine Bohart
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Writer and activist Scarlett Curtis and comedian Catherine Bohart join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Maggie Nelson, Anna Burns and Sayaka Murata.
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Publisher: Melville House
Milkman by Anna Burns Publisher: Faber
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Publisher: Portobello Books
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2019.
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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. |
| 0:33.3 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:38.5 | 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. |
| 0:52.8 | Hello, it's excellent to be back. The years turned, |
| 0:55.9 | the days are growing longer, and here with their choice of goodread are first Scarlet Curtis, |
| 1:00.8 | whose journalism includes the weekly column The Generation Zed Hit List in the Sunday Times Style |
| 1:06.3 | magazine. She co-founded the Pink Protest feminist activist group and edited last year's headline-grabbing essay collection, |
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