Tobias Menzies & Gytha Lodge

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor Tobias Menzies and crime writer Gytha Lodge join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Rachel Cusk, Judith Kerr, and Helen Garner.

Transit by Rachel Cusk Publisher: Jonathan Cape ( Faber)

The Spare Room by Helen Garner Publisher: Canongate Canons

The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021.

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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 didn't 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.
0:34.3	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.3	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.3	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.3	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:47.3	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:52.3	Hello, today a Tigers coming to tea with us, a slightly alarming experience.
0:58.7	With me to introduce their good read are first, the actor Tobias Menzies,
1:02.9	aka Prince Philip for fans of the Crown, equally known for his double role in the hit TV series, Outlander.
1:09.4	Currently, Tobias is filming a second series of This Way Up
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