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A Good Read

Toby Young and Sarah Vine

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2848 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Writers Toby Young and Sarah Vine join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Lionel Davidson, John Preston and Jan Morris.

Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson Publisher: Faber

A Very English Scandal by John Preston Publisher: Virago

Conundrum by Jan Morris Publisher: Faber

Producer: Sally Heaven

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017.

Transcript

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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.

0:33.4

This is the BBC.

0:39.3

Hello, it's good to be back today with skullduggery in Russia and in the Palace of Westminster.

0:44.3

With me to introduce their good read are two journalists, Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine and Toby Young,

0:51.3

co-author most recently of what every parent needs to know how to help your child get the most out of primary school.

0:58.2

Toby's also co-founded for schools.

1:01.4

And Toby, why don't you start us off? Your choice of a good read is.

1:05.5

Kalimski Heights by Lionel Davidson.

1:08.8

I read this when I was a teenager on the recommendation of my mum.

1:14.1

It's, I think you called it a literary thriller. And it's about an agent who is dispatched

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