Val McDermid & Martha Lane Fox
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Crime writer Val McDermid and businesswoman Martha Lane Fox join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Emma Smith, Ali Smith and Patrick Hamilton. From 2020.
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright by Emma Smith Publisher: Pelican
How to be Both by Ali Smith Publisher: Penguin
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton Publisher: Little Brown
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.
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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. |
| 0:27.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them. |
| 0:47.9 | We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello, with me today, one of our leading crime novelists, Val McDermott, perhaps best known |
| 0:58.7 | for The Wire in the Blood series, but in all the author of more than 30 widely translated |
| 1:03.7 | bestsellers, including most recently How the Dead Speak, now out in paperback. |
| 1:09.5 | With Val is Digital Supremo Martha Lane Fox, founder back in the |
| 1:13.8 | 1990s of the travel and leisure site Last Minute.com, and these days, among much else, |
| 1:19.3 | executive chair of technology think tank dot everyone, which she also founded, a crossbench |
| 1:24.8 | pier and a judge of the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. |
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