Tuppence Middleton & Matthew Shribman
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Actress Tuppence Middleton and environmentalist Matthew Shribman join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by by Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, Deborah Levy. From 2021.
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Publisher: Vintage [Translator: Ann Goldstein]
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard Publisher: Faber [Translator: Jack Dawson]
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy Publisher: Penguin
Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Becky Ripley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021.
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 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, with me today, the actress Tuppence Middleton, whose big screen credits include |
| 0:58.6 | Downton Abbey, the current war and most recently Mank opposite Gary Oldman. |
| 1:03.9 | On TV, she starred in the Netflix series Sense 8 and the BBC's Dickensian and War |
| 1:09.4 | and Peace. |
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