Podcast Episodes

Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel

This month World Book Club is in the BBC Radio Theatre and is talking to one of the most popular and widely read British novelists, Jeffrey Archer, a…

9 years, 4 months ago

Derek Walcott - Omeros

This month we mark the recent death of the St Lucian poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott with another chance to hear him talk-on-the-pr…

9 years, 5 months ago

Robert Harris - Imperium

This month World Book Club visits the Oxford Literary Festival in the elegant surroundings of Worcester College, part of the university and is talkin…

9 years, 5 months ago

Joël Dicker - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

This month World Book Club are once again part of The Hay Literary Festival in Cartagena, Colombia. Harriett Gilbert and a Festival audience talk to …

9 years, 5 months ago

Laura Restrepo - Delirium

This month World Book Club are lucky enough to be in the beautiful old city of Cartagena in Colombia as part of the Cartagena Hay Festival of Literat…

9 years, 5 months ago

Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family

We talk to the acclaimed Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard about A Death in the Family, volume one of his remarkable series of memoirs My Struggle…

9 years, 9 months ago

Margaret Drabble - The Millstone

This month World Book Club is talking to the acclaimed British writer Margaret Drabble about her remarkable novel The Millstone.

At a time when illegi…

9 years, 10 months ago

Crime and Punishment

Russian writer Dostoyevsky’s haunting classic thriller, Crime and Punishment, is celebrating its 150th birthday this year.

Consumed by the idea of hi…

9 years, 11 months ago

Anne Enright - The Gathering

This month World Book Club talks to the acclaimed Irish writer Anne Enright about her poignant Booker Prize-winning novel The Gathering.

In it Veronic…

10 years ago

DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little

Harriett Gilbert talks to the hugely acclaimed writer DBC Pierre about his best-selling first novel Vernon God Little. An absurdly humorous look at t…

10 years ago