Terry Deary and Shappi Khorsandi
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Horrible Histories author Terry Deary and comedian Shappi Khorsandi join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by GK Chesterton, Sue Townsend and John McGahern.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by GK Chesterton Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend Publisher: Penguin
Amongst Women by John McGahern Publisher: Faber and Faber
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2013.
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.3 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.6 | 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. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at |
| 0:38.6 | BBC.co.uk slash radio four. Hello, welcome to a new season of a good read. It's great to be back |
| 0:46.4 | and, as ever, with an intriguing trio of books, including a futuristic novel set in 1984. And no, I bet it's not the one you're thinking of. |
| 0:56.5 | So, to introduce their choice of a good read are, |
| 0:59.2 | first, one of the best-selling British authors this century, |
| 1:02.5 | the creator of the phenomenally successful horrible histories, Terry Deary. |
| 1:07.8 | But Terry's rotten Romans, vile Victorians and the rest are only the tip of his iceberg. In all, |
| 1:13.5 | he's published 247 books, not to mention stage plays, film scripts, TV and radio scripts, |
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