A Good Read - 02/03/2010

Sue MacGregor talks to museum curator Ken Arnold and writer Jay Griffiths about their favourite books. Ken's choice is a Victorian memoir of a journey from religious fundamentalism to Darwinian science. Jay picks a collection of essays from the author of Ways of Seeing. Sue's selection is a challenge to sloppy thinking in modern life. Books featured in this programme: Sue's choice: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre Publ. Fourth Estate Ken's choice: Father and Son by Edmund Gosse Publ. OUP Jay's choice: Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger Publ. Verso Books.