# Chris Tarrant and Mike Gayle Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-good-read-7332172/chris-tarrant-and-mike-gayle Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-good-read-7332172/chris-tarrant-and-mike-gayle.md Podcast: [A Good Read](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-good-read-7332172) Published: 2025-10-20T14:30:00+00:00 Episode link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l375 Audio file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0m71ksl.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-good-read-7332172/episodes/chris-tarrant-and-mike-gayle Duration seconds: 1663 ## Resource OPEN by Andre Agassi SONIC YOUTH SLEPT ON MY FLOOR by Dave Haslam THE SECRET HOURS by Mick Herron Television and radio broadcaster Chris Tarrant nominates the autobiography of tennis legend Andre Agassi, and novelist Mike Gayle has gone for Dave Haslam’s memoir of his time spent DJing at Manchester’s famous Hacienda. Harriett is hoping the two of them will enjoy an espionage novel by Slow Horses author Mick Herron. Producer for BBC Audio Bristol: Sally Heaven Join the conversation on Instagram: agoodreadbbc ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-good-read-7332172/episodes/chris-tarrant-and-mike-gayle/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-good-read-7332172/chris-tarrant-and-mike-gayle.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.