Syima Aslam & Stig Abell

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Co-founder of the Bradford Literature Festival, Syima Aslam and journalist Stig Abell join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Jane Austen, JK Rowling and Virginia Woolf.

Both are part of the expert panel that chose the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Publisher: Penguin

Orlando by Virginia Woolf Publisher: Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

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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.
0:52.7	Harry Potter, Lizzie Bennett, Virginia Woolf's sexually ambiguous Orlando, do they have
0:58.0	anything in common? Stay tuned. With me to introduce their good read are first the editor and
1:03.5	publisher of the Times Literary Supplement, Stig Abel, who also presents Radio 4's front
1:09.1	row and is the author of How Britain Really Works.
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