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Harriett Gilbert talks to Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott about his epic poem Omeros, which explores ancient themes of displacement and exile in a moder…
17 years, 9 months ago
Episode 1
Harriett Gilbert talks to Alice Walker about her novel The Color Purple.
17 years, 10 months ago
Annie Proulx
American writer Annie Proulx talks about her prize-winning novel 'The Shipping News' and her short story 'Brokeback Mountain'.
18 years ago
26/08/2008
David Lodge discusses his acclaimed novel 'Nice Work'.
18 years, 1 month ago
Chinua Achebe
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the acclaimed African novel ‘Things Fall Apart’, we are repeating the memorable World Book C…
18 years, 2 months ago
John Irving
American author John Irving discusses his bestselling novel 'The World According to Garp', the tragicomic lifestory of the author TS Garp.
18 years, 3 months ago
28/05/2008
Harriett Gilbert talks to Khaled Hosseini about his book The Kite Runner.
18 years, 4 months ago
Sebastian Faulks
Best-selling English writer Sebastian Faulks talks about his heart-rending novel of love and war, Birdsong.
18 years, 5 months ago
Jane Smiley
Best-selling American author Jane Smiley discusses A Thousand Acres, her ambitious re-imagining of Shakespeare's King Lear transposed onto an Iowan f…
18 years, 6 months ago
Patricia Cornwell
American crime writer Patricia Cornwell talks about Post Mortem, the first novel in her celebrated Kay Scarpetta series.
18 years, 7 months ago