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Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst 

BBC Radio 4

Find reading inspiration with favourite books chosen by our guests.

A Good Read

The classicist and the author talk about books they love with presenter Harriett Gilbert. One of the books is eerily prescient about the state of the world today.

The books are:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, chosen by classicist Daisy Dunn
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household, chosen by podcaster and author Andrew Hunter Murray
A Life's Music by Andreï Makine, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, chosen by presenter Harriett Gilbert

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Beth O'Dea
Join us over on instagram @agoodreadbbc

Photo credit: Timothy Foster

Daisy Dunn and Andrew Hunter Murray

A special episode of A Good Read, recorded live at the Hay Festival. The books are:

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe, chosen by psychotherapist and artist Philippa Perry
All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills, chosen by presenter and writer Stuart Maconie
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie, chosen by presenter Harriett Gilbert

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Maggie Ayre
Join us over on Instagram @agoodreadbbc

Photo credit: Pal Hansen

Philippa Perry and Stuart Maconie

Two Scottish crime writers choose books by:
Iain Banks (Espedair Street)
Muriel Spark (Memento Mori)

And Harriett's choice is Summer by Edith Wharton

Producer: Maggie Ayre BBC Audio Bristol

Photo credit: Julie Broadfoot

Louise Welsh and Chris Brookmyre

The books are:

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, chosen by Harriet Tyce
Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre, chosen by Matt Edmondson
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp, chosen by Harriett Gilbert 

Join us over on Instagram @agoodreadbbc

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Sally Heaven

Photo credit: Suki Dhanda

Harriet Tyce and Matt Edmondson

This time the community clothing entrepreneur and host of The Great British Sewing Bee Patrick Grant chooses his favourite book along with fellow guest anthropologist and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota.

The books are:

Parsnips Buttered by Joe Lycett
The Flow by Amy Jane Beer 
Heatwave by Penelope Lively

Produced in Bristol by Maggie Ayre

Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota

Newsreader Maryam Moshiri and Red Dwarf creator Doug Naylor discuss their chosen books, including Bridget Jones's Diary, with Harriett Gilbert.

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, chosen by Maryam Moshiri

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell, chosen by Doug Naylor

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Join us over on Instagram @agoodreadbbc

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Sally Heaven

Maryam Moshiri and Doug Naylor

THE LIVES AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL by Fay Weldon, chosen by Victoria Pile
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway, chosen by Julian Baggini
CLEAR by Carys Davies, chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Comedy writer and director Victoria Pile joins philosopher and author Julian Baggini to talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. On the menu is a feminist revenge novel that is as dark as it is funny, a classic Hemingway novella that casts us out to sea, and an evocative short story set on a remote island off Scotland. 

Join the conversation on Instagram: agoodreadbbc

Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Becky Ripley

Victoria Pile and Julian Baggini

This week's books are:
How to Measure a Cow by Margaret Forster (chosen by Lolita Chakrabarti)
The House of God by Samuel Shem (chosen by Guy Leschziner)
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir (chosen by Harriett Gilbert) 

The producer is Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio Bristol
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Lolita Chakrabarti and Dr Guy Leschziner

The children's author Frank Cottrell-Boyce and the author of Wild Swans and Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister Jung Chang choose their good reads.

Where Should We Run To by Alan Garner chosen by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Death of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney chosen by Harriett Gilbert
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairytales chosen by Jung Chang

Produced in Bristol by Maggie Ayre

Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Jung Chang

This week's books are:

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie, chosen by crime writer Martin Edwards
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, chosen by sociologist, bioethicist and comedian Tom Shakespeare
Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Pineiro, chosen by Harriett Gilbert

Join us over on Instagram @agoodreadbbc

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Sally Heaven

Photo credit: Belinda Mason

Martin Edwards and Tom Shakespeare

Writer Sophie Hannah and journalist Viv Groskop join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Agatha Christie, Mikhail Bulgakov and Eileen Atkins. 

The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie (writing as Mary Westmacott)
Publisher HarperCollins

Will She Do? by Dame Eileen Atkins 
Publisher Virago

The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov trans by Michael Glenny
Publisher Vintage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2022.

Sophie Hannah and Viv Groskop

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