Steph McGovern and Jayde Adams

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Broadcaster Steph McGovern and comedian Jayde Adams join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Jon Ronson, Ann Cleeves and Carrie Fisher.

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson Publisher: Picador

The Seagull by Ann Cleeves Publisher: Pan

Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher Publisher: Scribner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 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 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.
0:38.4	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.
0:53.1	Today, we've murder in Northumberland, drugs in Hollywood and shaming on social media.
0:59.5	With me to introduce their good reader, the financial journalist Steph McGovern of BBC
1:04.0	Breakfast fame, who also presents watchdog and shop well for less.
1:09.2	And with her, the comedian Jade Adams,
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