Tony Parsons and Olly Mann
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Journalist and broadcaster Tony Parsons and podcast presenter Olly Mann join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Liane Moriarty, Edward St Aubyn and Norton Juster.
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Publisher: Penguin
Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn Publisher: Picador
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Publisher: Harper Collins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 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. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. 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 I'm joined by journalist, broadcaster and novelist Tony Parsons, whose 18 |
| 0:58.2 | books so far include Man and Boy and most recently the best-selling series of Max Woolf Thrillers, |
| 1:04.6 | of which the latest Girl on Fire came out this spring. |
| 1:08.2 | With Tony, it's writer and presenter Olly Mann, who with Helen Zaltzman presents |
| 1:12.3 | the comedy podcast, Answer Me This, and whose other shows include The Modern Man and Radio 4's |
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