Vanessa Feltz and Elvis McGonagall
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Harriett Gilbert and her guests – BBC Radio 2’s Vanessa Feltz and performance poet, Elvis McGonagall - discuss books by Javier Marias. AA Milne and Jeff Torrington.
A Heart So white by Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Publisher: Vintage
Two People by AA Milne Publisher: Capuchin Classics
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington Publisher: Vintage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2013.
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.3 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.6 | 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. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks for downloading a good read. |
| 0:35.4 | You can find more information on all the BBC downloads at BBC.co.uk slash radio four. |
| 0:44.1 | Hello, welcome. And today, if you've got a soft spot for Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin and Co. I think we may have a surprise for you. |
| 0:51.1 | But first, my guests, they are the stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent |
| 0:56.9 | rocker Elvis McGonagall, or Richard Smith, as is sometimes known, World Slam Champion Compaire of |
| 1:03.3 | the Blue Suede Sporan Club, a regular on TV and radio, and whose first book, Mostly Drich, was |
| 1:09.8 | published last year. |
| 1:15.2 | My other guest, who also pops up from time to time on radio and television, |
| 1:19.3 | is the Sony Award-winning broadcaster and journalist Vanessa Feltz. |
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