Stacey Dooley and Gaia Vince

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

TV presenters Stacey Dooley and author Gaia Vince join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Laline Paull, Jon McGregor and Elizabeth Strout.

The Bees by Laline Paull Publisher: 4th Estate

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor Publisher: 4th Estate

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2017.

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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.
0:33.4	This is the BBC.
0:37.4	Hello, today, the extraordinary life of bees, and in fact the extraordinarilyness of life in general.
0:43.6	With me to advocate their good read are TV presenter and journalist Stacey Dooley,
0:48.4	whose BBC documentaries investigate topics such as the war on drugs, domestic abuse,
0:53.7	and earlier this year, child pornography in Japan
0:56.5	and the missing Indigenous girls of Canada.
1:00.0	With Stacey is journalist and author Gaya Vince,
1:02.5	a specialist in science, society and the environment,
1:05.6	whose first book Adventures in the Anthropocene
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