Sindhu Vee and Phil Wang
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Comedians Sindhu Vee, Phil Wang join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Celeste Ng, Rose George and Vivek Shanbhag.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Publisher: Abacus
Deep Sea and Foreign Going by Rose George Publisher: Portobello
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag Publisher: Faber [Translator: Srinath Perur]
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 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. |
| 0:22.8 | 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. Hello, today we've got piracy, arson, greed, cowardice, all manner of vices and crimes. |
| 0:46.0 | And with me to talk about books they love are two stand-up comedians. |
| 0:50.0 | Sindhu V is the writer and star of Radio 4 series Sindhuan, a regular guest on the Guilty Feminist podcast, |
| 0:57.3 | and in the new year she'll be performing her show Sandhog at the Soho Theatre in London before setting off on a UK tour. |
| 1:05.4 | With Sindhu is Phil Wang, whose TV appearances include the comedy line-up on Netflix and on the BBC live at the Apollo and have I Got News for you? |
| 1:14.8 | For radio he co-writes and co-stars in the comedy series |
| 1:18.2 | Daphne sounds expensive. |
| 1:21.6 | Sinty, would you start? What is your choice of a good read? |
| 1:25.7 | Hello, Phil. |
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