Sharleen Spiteri & Hugh Dennis
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri and comedian Hugh Dennis join Harriett Gilbert to discuss books by Renee Knight, Peter Ackroyd and Caitlin Moran.
The Secretary by Renee Knight Publisher: Black Swan
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd Publisher: Penguin
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran Publisher: Ebury Press
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.
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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 didn't 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. |
| 0:38.1 | The lead singer of rock band, Texas and Fleabag's bank manager. |
| 0:42.9 | Championing their good read today are Charlene Spiteri, |
| 0:46.0 | who's recorded 10 albums with Texas, most recently Jump on Board, |
| 0:50.1 | and two solo albums, Melody and the Movie Songbook. |
| 0:56.8 | With Charlene, the comedian, writer and actor Hugh Dennis, |
| 1:04.7 | best known on Radio 4 for The Now Show and on TV besides Fleabag as the dad in outnumbered and for the comedy show, |
| 1:10.4 | Mock the Week. Charlene Spiteri, would you start us off? What's your choice of a good read? It is The Secretary by Rennie Knight. And to be honest, it's the most recent book I have read. And I thought, okay, it's fresh in my mind. And I enjoyed it very much. And I thought, that's what I'm going to pick today because it was nice to just pick something that was really current. |
| 1:29.0 | So tell us a bit about it. |
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