Yasmin Khan & David Mitchell

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Travel and food writer Yasmin Khan and novelist David Mitchell join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Anne Tyler, Madeline Miller and Ryszard Kapuściński.

Circe by Madeline Miller Publisher: Bloomsbury

Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński Publisher: Penguin

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 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 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.
0:34.4	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.2	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.6	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.
0:52.5	Hello, today a Persian king, a Greek witch, and a Baltimore
0:57.0	computer technician. With me to introduce their good read, our first, the novelist David Mitchell,
1:02.8	author of among many other titles, Number Nine Dream, Cloud Atlas, and most recently Utopia Avenue,
1:09.9	about a fictional 1960s rock band.
1:12.9	With David is the broadcaster and author Yasmin Khan, whose cookery books, The Saffron Tales and Zaytune,
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