Podcast Episodes

Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines

This is the last edition of the London Calling season of World Book Clubs - which have been going out each Saturday during May.

This week the programm…

14 years, 4 months ago

Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question

This week we've the third edition in our London Calling season of World Book Clubs which are going out each Saturday during May.

This week we're talk…

14 years, 4 months ago

Andrea Levy - Small Island

Andrea Levy discusses her novel Small Island with a studio audience, and the author revisits the West London setting of her multi-prize-winning novel…

14 years, 5 months ago

Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor

Coming up the first in our London Calling season of World Book Clubs which will be going out each Saturday over the next four weeks.

In the run up to …

14 years, 5 months ago

Toni Morrison - Beloved

World Book Club celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication of that modern classic novel Beloved with another chance to hear the programme wit…

14 years, 6 months ago

Jonathan S Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Harriett Gilbert talks this month to American writer Jonathan Safran Foer about his novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Set in the aftermath o…

14 years, 7 months ago

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

February 2012 marks the bicentenary of Victorian author Charles Dickens.

In this special edition of World Book Club, biographer Claire Tomalin talks …

14 years, 8 months ago

Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider

Acclaimed Maori writer Witi Ihimaera talks to Harriett Gilbert and a group of readers at the Cheltenham Literary Festival about his magical, lore-lad…

14 years, 9 months ago

Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger

Harriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed British writer Penelope Lively about her Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger.

A haunting tale of loss, loneline…

14 years, 10 months ago

David Grossman - To the End of the Land

Harriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed Israeli writer David Grossman about his award-winning novel, To the End of the Land.

Winner of - amongst others -…

14 years, 11 months ago