Sophie Hannah and Viv Groskop
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Writer Sophie Hannah and journalist Viv Groskop join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Agatha Christie, Mikhail Bulgakov and Eileen Atkins.
The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie (writing as Mary Westmacott) Publisher HarperCollins
Will She Do? by Dame Eileen Atkins Publisher Virago
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov trans by Michael Glenny Publisher Vintage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2022.
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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. |
| 0:27.5 | 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. |
| 0:38.7 | 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, today, Agatha Christie, as you may not know her. E Agatha Christie, as you may not know her, |
| 0:56.6 | Eileen Atkins, as you may not know her, and a very unhoused-trained dog. With me to introduce |
| 1:02.0 | their good read are first the crime writer Sophie Hanna, whose more than 20 bestsellers include |
| 1:07.0 | four continuation Ercud Poirot novels and the Waterhouse and Zaylor Mysteries. |
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