Stephen Fry and Alan Davies

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actors Stephen Fry and Alan Davies reunite and join Harriett Gilbert to debate favourite books by Aldous Huxley, JM Coetzee and Muriel Spark.

A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Publisher: Vintage

Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee Publisher: Vintage

A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark Publisher: Virago

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 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.
0:38.7	Hello, this is Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.7	You've downloaded the A Good Read podcast with Stephen Fry and Alan Davis.
0:45.5	Every week, my two guests and I do what book lovers all over the world enjoy doing.
0:50.0	We recommend books we love and talk about why.
0:53.7	Join today by comedian, actor, presenter, director Stephen Fry, among much else star on TV
0:59.9	of Jeeves and Worcester and Blackadder, erstwhile host of more than 180 episodes of QI,
1:06.1	and narrator of all seven Harry Potter audiobooks.
1:09.7	His own most recent book is Mythos, The Greek Myths, Retold.
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