336 Episodes

  1. Poet Simon Armitage on his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Published: 12/11/2018
  2. Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

    Published: 12/2/2018
  3. Historian Antonia Fraser discuss her book The Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 11/5/2018
  4. Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney

    Published: 11/4/2018
  5. Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family

    Published: 10/7/2018
  6. Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

    Published: 9/2/2018
  7. John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany.

    Published: 8/23/2018
  8. Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

    Published: 8/5/2018
  9. Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing

    Published: 7/20/2018
  10. Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn

    Published: 7/1/2018
  11. Jan Morris discusses her classic travel book Venice

    Published: 6/14/2018
  12. Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

    Published: 6/3/2018
  13. William Trevor discusses his short story collection After Rain

    Published: 5/17/2018
  14. Jo Nesbo talks about his book, The Snowman

    Published: 5/6/2018
  15. Thomas Keneally discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark

    Published: 4/17/2018
  16. Sarah Perry discusses her novel, The Essex Serpent

    Published: 4/1/2018
  17. Muriel Spark discusses the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    Published: 3/15/2018
  18. Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter

    Published: 3/4/2018
  19. Douglas Adams discusses The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Published: 2/14/2018
  20. Eimear McBride talks about her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

    Published: 2/4/2018

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Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels