Books and Authors

Books and Authors

313 episodes

This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. Open Book talks to authors about their work. In A Good Read Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books.


Podcasts

Endings and New Beginnings

Published: Dec. 31, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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The Year in Fiction

Published: Dec. 25, 2023, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 49 seconds

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Janice Hallett

Published: Dec. 17, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Ron Rash

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read: Chantal Joffe and Seamas O'Reilly

Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Alexis Wright

Published: Nov. 26, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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A Good Read: Janet Ellis & Jason Arday

Published: Nov. 21, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Femi Kayode

Published: Nov. 19, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read: India Knight and Emma Dabiri

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Teju Cole

Published: Nov. 12, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read Nigel Kennedy and Clare Perkins

Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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A Good Read Cressida Cowell & Romy Gill

Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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AI and the Novel

Published: Oct. 29, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read: Anneka Rice and Maureen Freely

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Karl Ove Knausgard

Published: Oct. 22, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read: Cornelia Parker and Jeremy Lee

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Daniel Mason

Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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A Good Read: Rhys Stephenson and Esther Manito

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Lydia Davis

Published: Oct. 8, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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A Good Read Vaseem Khan and Lucy Winkett

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 4:37 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Ben Lerner and Anne Enright on poetry and fiction

Published: Sept. 17, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Zadie Smith

Published: Sept. 10, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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George Orwell Now

Published: Aug. 27, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen speaks to Johny Pitts about her new book, The Wolf Hunt

Published: Aug. 20, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Ann Patchett, plus Magical Historical Fiction with S. J. Parris and Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Published: Aug. 13, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Johny Pitts explores Birmingham's literary heritage and contemporary writing scene.

Published: July 30, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read: Olivia Laing and Charlie Porter

Published: July 25, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Elizabeth Day celebrates the centenary year of the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard

Published: July 23, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Megan Nolan, plus crime summer reading recommendations from Vaseem Khan, Laura Wilson and Val McDermid

Published: July 16, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Richard Ford talks to Alex Clark about his latest novel, Be Mine - a father and son road trip across America.

Published: July 9, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds

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A Good Read: Andi Osho and Nikita Gill

Published: July 4, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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A Good Read: Merlin Sheldrake and Jo Marchant

Published: June 27, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Jenny Erpenbeck talks about her novel Kairos and discuses Siblings by Brigitte Reimann with translator Lucy Jones.

Published: June 25, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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A Good Read: Hal Cruttenden and Daisy Buchanan

Published: June 20, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Tragicomic Writing - Paul Murray talks to Alex Clark about his latest tragicomedy novel, The Bee Sting

Published: June 18, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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A Good Read: Zing Tsjeng and Yomi Sode

Published: June 13, 2023, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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Leila Slimani, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Kalaf Epalanga

Published: June 11, 2023, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Gill Hornby and Paul Burston

Published: June 6, 2023, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Guy Gunaratne, plus Literary Thefts with Rebecca Kuang and Andrew Lipstein

Published: May 28, 2023, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Linda Grant talks to Alex Clark about her novel The Story of the Forest

Published: May 21, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Deborah Levy, Miranda France and Kate Morton

Published: May 15, 2023, 9:46 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 22 seconds

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Stephen Buoro

Published: April 30, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Best of Young British Novelists 2023

Published: April 16, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Contemporary Indian Writing in the spotlight

Published: April 9, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Donna Leon and Margaret Heffernan

Published: March 28, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Javier Marias

Published: March 26, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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A Good Read: Katherine May and Liz Berry

Published: March 21, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Eleanor Catton

Published: March 19, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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A Good Read: Sophie Raworth and Patrick Ness

Published: March 14, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Margaret Atwood and Sam Selvon

Published: March 12, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Janet Street-Porter and Felicity Ward

Published: March 7, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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A Good Read: Philippa Perry and Anil Seth

Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel

Published: Feb. 26, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: James Marriott and Jude Rogers

Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Aleksandar Hemon, Roddy Doyle on Soul, and Dorothy Tse on Hong Kong

Published: Feb. 19, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 22 seconds

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A Good Read: Kate Bryan and Mark Steel

Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Bret Easton Ellis

Published: Feb. 12, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Dark Academia with Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg. Plus Saba Sams' Book I'd Never Lend

Published: Jan. 29, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Really Good, Actually

Published: Jan. 22, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens

Published: Jan. 15, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Katherine Mansfield

Published: Jan. 8, 2023, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Agatha Christie at Christmas

Published: Dec. 26, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Katherine Rundell

Published: Dec. 18, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

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Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz Open Book

Published: Dec. 12, 2022, 5:59 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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A Good Read: Frank Turner and Ellie Gibson

Published: Nov. 29, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Mariana Enriquez

Published: Nov. 27, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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A Good Read: Shaparak Khorsandi and Anne Hegerty

Published: Nov. 22, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Cormac McCarthy, The Writers, Derek Owusu

Published: Nov. 20, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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A Good Read: Philippa Forrester and Dwayne Fields

Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Barbara Kingsolver, plus the "Social Novel" with John Lanchester and Ayisha Malik

Published: Nov. 13, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Heidi Regan & Neil Delamere

Published: Nov. 8, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Ria Lina & Otegha Uwagba

Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Colm Toibin essays, Revisiting Shirley Hazzard

Published: Oct. 30, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Patience Agbabi and Andy Miller

Published: Oct. 25, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 27 seconds

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Writing Nature

Published: Oct. 23, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read: Damian Barr and Ben Fergusson

Published: Oct. 18, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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William Boyd

Published: Oct. 16, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read: John Wilson and Chloe Petts

Published: Oct. 11, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Celeste Ng

Published: Oct. 9, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read: Duncan Campbell and Mark Hokinson

Published: Oct. 4, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Orhan Pamuk

Published: Sept. 29, 2022, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy

Published: Sept. 18, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Ian McEwan

Published: Sept. 11, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Alex Clark on novels - past, present and future - about summer and change

Published: Aug. 28, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds

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Mary Renault's Greek Myths

Published: Aug. 21, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Ross Raisin

Published: Aug. 14, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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The Ethics of Writing Crime

Published: July 31, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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A Good Read: Salena Godden & Rob Biddulph

Published: July 26, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Tess Gunty on The Rabbit Hutch; Jackie Kay on the writing of Jamaica Kincaid

Published: July 24, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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A Good Read: Melanie Reid & Andrew Cotter

Published: July 19, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Summer Reading and Benjamin Wood

Published: July 17, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Sophie Hannah & Viv Groskop

Published: July 12, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Johny Pitts returns to his home city to explore Sheffield's literary landscapes

Published: July 10, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read: Petroc Trelawny & Stuart MacBride

Published: July 5, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Revisiting the 1990s

Published: June 26, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Rob Newman & Sarfraz Manzoor

Published: June 21, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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Time and Time Travel with Emily St. John Mandel, Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger

Published: June 19, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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A Good Read: Dreda Say Mitchell & Emma Gannon

Published: June 14, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Elif Batuman and Book Influencers

Published: June 12, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.

Published: May 29, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead

Published: May 22, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Neurodiversity

Published: May 15, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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About A Son; Book Banning; The Water Statues

Published: May 8, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Julian Barnes; How Words Get Good; Bangkok Postcard

Published: April 24, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 25 seconds

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Forbidden love with Douglas Stuart; Oxfords influence on interwar writers

Published: April 17, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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Belfast in the Blitz

Published: April 11, 2022, 3:41 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 20 seconds

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A Good Read Julie Hesmondalgh and Elaine C Smith

Published: March 30, 2022, 4:57 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Here Again Now, Readers Guide to Gogol, Lessons in Chemistry

Published: March 27, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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A Good Read: Joanna Scanlan and Sabine Durrant

Published: March 22, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Karen Joy Fowler on the infamous Booth family, Michel the Giant, Lisa Taddeo on Fever Dream

Published: March 20, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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A Good Read: Jessica Fostekew and Molly Naylor

Published: March 15, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Marlon James

Published: March 13, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 31 seconds

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A Good Read: Alistair Petrie and Alex Wheatle

Published: March 8, 2022, 5:56 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read: Katie Thistleton and Suzannah Lipscomb

Published: March 1, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Open Book

Published: Feb. 27, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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A Good Read: Lauren Mayberry and Rob Deering

Published: Feb. 22, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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When We Were Birds and Tayari Jones on Toni Morrison's only short story, Recitatif.

Published: Feb. 20, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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A Good Read - Gillian Burke and Dee Caffari

Published: Feb. 15, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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The new boom of feminist Spanish-language literature.

Published: Feb. 13, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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A Good Read: Katherine Rundell and Nathan Filer

Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 20 seconds

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A Good Read: Alan Titchmarsh and Amanda Owen

Published: Feb. 1, 2022, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 39 seconds

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Gary Shteyngart's tragic comedy set in lockdown, Richard Beard on Time, East Side Voices

Published: Jan. 30, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Tessa Hadley

Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Chris Power and guests explore the enduring legacy of James Joyces Ulysses.

Published: Jan. 16, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Hanya Yanagihara

Published: Jan. 9, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Highlights 2021

Published: Dec. 26, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Laura Barnett, Moscow Postcard, Non- Fiction 2021

Published: Dec. 19, 2021, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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Chris Power enjoys a rare new book from Irish author Claire Keegan

Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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A Good Read: Liam Williams and Kate Stables

Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Elizabeth Strout discusses her new novel, Oh William! which revisits the characters of her Lucy Barton series.

Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read Kaffe Fassett and Andy Summers

Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 4:50 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds

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JJ Bola, David Damrosch and Rob Doyle, plus Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Taskeen Ahmed

Published: Nov. 21, 2021, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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A Good Read: Athena Kugblenu and Pope Lonergan

Published: Nov. 16, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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A Good Read Muriel Gray and Leah Davies

Published: Nov. 15, 2021, 8:07 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 1 second

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Patricia Highsmith, Robin McLean, Courttia Newland

Published: Nov. 14, 2021, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read: Dr Rachel Clarke and Mohsin Zaidi

Published: Nov. 2, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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Friendship in Fiction: a special programme from London Literature Festival

Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Musa Okwonga & Sophie Heawood

Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Elizabeth Day talks to Sarah Hall about her latest novel, Burntcoat

Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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A Good Read Mona Arshi and Malaika Kegode

Published: Oct. 19, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

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Lauren Groff

Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read

Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds

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Jonathan Franzen, Amitav Ghosh, Nina Mingya Powles

Published: Oct. 10, 2021, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read Neil Brand and Tiff Stevenson

Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 4:47 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Rabih Alameddine, English PEN at 100 with Philippe Sands and Elif Shafak, Editors' Pick

Published: Sept. 26, 2021, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about Endgame

Published: Sept. 19, 2021, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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Elizabeth Day talks to Colson Whitehead

Published: Sept. 12, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Making it new? Literature of the Twenties Special

Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 21 seconds

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David Grossman, Richard Beard, The Sea Library

Published: Aug. 22, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Leila Slimani, Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work 20 years on with Kate Mosse and Laura Dockrill, Richard Beard

Published: Aug. 15, 2021, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 20 seconds

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Jean Hanff Korelitz, Georgette Heyer, Marilynne Robinson

Published: Aug. 8, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Poppy Jay and Catherine Johnson

Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 10:43 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about his new novel, A Passage North

Published: July 25, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read: Vanessa Redgrave & Eileen Atkins

Published: July 20, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Miranda Cowley Heller and Summer reading round up

Published: July 18, 2021, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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Japanese fiction; Vendela Vida

Published: July 11, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read Lloyd Cole and Francis Macdonald

Published: July 7, 2021, 1:58 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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A Good Read Yanis Varoufakis and Patrick McGrath

Published: June 29, 2021, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 27 seconds

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Elizabeth Day speaks to Damon Galgut about his new novel, The Promise.

Published: June 27, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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A Good Read: Janey Godley and Mel Hudson

Published: June 24, 2021, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 50 seconds

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Elizabeth Day talks to Zakiya Dalila Harris about her debut novel, The Other Black Girl

Published: June 20, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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Jason Watkins & Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published: June 15, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Chris Power speaks to Jonathan Lee about his new novel, The Great Mistake

Published: June 13, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Vick Hope & Isy Suttie

Published: June 8, 2021, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

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Tech startups in fiction; Editor's tip; Sensitivity reading

Published: May 30, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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New Irish Writing, Book Dedications, Mary Gaitskill on Madame Bovary

Published: May 23, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Hollie McNish, Modern American Short Stories, Twins

Published: May 16, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Published: May 9, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Jon McGregor; Chester Himes; Editors Tip

Published: April 25, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Chris Power; Online Dating in Fiction; Postcard from Delhi

Published: April 18, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Spring Special: Bookshops Reopen, Naomi Ishiguro, Clearing out books

Published: April 11, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Bryony Gordon & Hollie McNish

Published: March 30, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Claire Fuller & Karla Neblett; Elizabeth Bowen; Katherine Heiny

Published: March 28, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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A Good Read: Adjoa Andoh & Andy Day

Published: March 23, 2021, 7:28 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Elizabeth Day talks to Fiona Mozley about her second novel, Hot Stew.

Published: March 21, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read: Greg James & Bella Mackie

Published: March 17, 2021, 9:55 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Elizabeth Day talks to Pulitzer Prize winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen about The Committed

Published: March 14, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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A Good Read: Jane Hill & Derek Owusu

Published: March 9, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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A Good Read: Twayna Mayne & Simon Savidge

Published: March 2, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds

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Elizabeth Day talks to Mary Lawson

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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A Good Read:Amrou AL-Kadhi & Peter Bazalgette

Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Johny Pitts talks to Caleb Azumah Nelson about Open Water, his hotly anticipated debut

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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A Good Read: Tobias Menzies & Gytha Lodge

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds

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Elizabeth Day talks to actor Ethan Hawke about his new novel.

Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Tuppence Middleton & Matthew Shribman

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds

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A Good Read: Helen Mort & Mo Omar

Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Richard Flanagan; How To Read Well; Editor's Tip

Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Kate Mosse, Books on TV, Writing in prisons

Published: Jan. 24, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Elizabeth Day talks to debut writer Raven Leilani.

Published: Jan. 17, 2021, 4:28 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Bryan Washington

Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Reading in 2020

Published: Dec. 27, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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The Joy of Dickens

Published: Dec. 20, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Jonathan Lethem; Sylvia Townsend Warner; Edna O'Brien

Published: Dec. 13, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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A Good Read: Clive Myrie & Boyd Tonkin

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Jenny Erpenbeck, Margaret Atwood on a classic dystopia, Paintings in fiction

Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Alexander McCall Smith & Prof Lucie Green

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Climate Change Special

Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read:Vanessa Kisuule & Jonathon Porritt

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Jonathan Coe, Radical Fairy Tales, Alex Wheatle

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Yasmin Khan & David Mitchell

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 5:38 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Rumaan Alam, Words and Photography, Bookshop.org

Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Arabella Weir & Deborah Levy

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Jonathan Safran Foer & Daliso Chaponda

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Hilary Mantel, Lee Child and Andrew Grant, Editors Pick

Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Mark Radcliffe & Patricia Cumper

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Armando Iannucci and John Mullan on Dickens; John Lanchester; new Black British writing

Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Johny Pitts & Charlotte Proudman

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Jennifer Makumbi, New Dutch Writing, Barbara Kingsolver and Wild Swimming in literature

Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Ruth Jones & Dominic Cooke

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Martin Amis

Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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Rose Tremain; Science in Fiction

Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Donal Ryan, Libraries in Fiction, Campus Novels

Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Richard Powers and Nature Writing

Published: Aug. 30, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Sara Collins speaks to author and academic Sarah Moss

Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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The novels of PD James; Akwaeke Emezi

Published: Aug. 16, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Carys Davies

Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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A Good Read: Nicholas Lezard & Gwyneth Williams

Published: July 28, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Kate Grenville, Beryl Bainbridge, Narrative Voices

Published: July 26, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Lissa Evans & Sarah Keyworth

Published: July 21, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Elizabeth Day talks to Eley Williams about her new book, The Liar's Dictionary.

Published: July 19, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Fiona Shaw & Nichola Coughlan

Published: July 14, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Charlotte Wood, Travel Writing, Narrative Voice

Published: July 12, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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A Good Read: Nina Sosanya & David Nicholls

Published: July 7, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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A Good Read: Laurie Anderson and Stuart Maconie talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert

Published: June 30, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Alex Clark speaks to Elizabeth Wetmore about her book Valentine

Published: June 28, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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A Good Read: Val McDermid and Martha Lane Fox talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert

Published: June 23, 2020, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Orlando King, Authors and Critics

Published: June 21, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 6 seconds

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A Good Read: Pippa Haywood & Felicity Montagu

Published: June 16, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Andres Neuman, William Boyd on WW2 Novels, Singlit with Elaine Chiew

Published: June 14, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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A Good Read: Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie Carter

Published: June 9, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Paul Mendez, Class & Society novels, Thomas Keneally on Dickens

Published: May 31, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Daniel Mason, Pride and Prejudice, Bob Geldof

Published: May 24, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Curtis Sittenfeld on her new book, Rodham

Published: May 17, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Tayari Jones, Jane Eyre, John Freeman

Published: May 10, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Garth Greenwell

Published: April 26, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace

Published: April 19, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Evie Wyld, Louise Doughty on Ghostly Narrators, Polly Samson and Leonard Cohen's Hydra

Published: April 12, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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A Good Read: Nazir Afzal and Maggie Gee

Published: April 3, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Maggie O'Farrell on her new novel, Hamnet

Published: March 29, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Helen Lederer & Angela Barnes

Published: March 24, 2020, 5:02 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Petina Gappah on her new book, Out of Darkness, Shining Light

Published: March 22, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read:Sharleen Spiteri & Hugh Dennis

Published: March 17, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Christos Tsiolkas, Mothers and Daughters in fiction, Nairobi books

Published: March 15, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Henry Normal & Bobby Seagull

Published: March 10, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Kiley Reid on her debut novel, Such a Fun Age

Published: March 8, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Neil Forsyth & Neil Oliver

Published: March 3, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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Richard Harrington & Njambi McGrath

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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Colum McCann

Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Gail Honeyman & Mavis Cheek

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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Isabel Allende

Published: Feb. 16, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Sarah Phelps & Dane Baptiste

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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100 Novels; Love and Romance with Marian Keyes, David Nicholls, Sara Collins

Published: Feb. 9, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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A Good Read: Syima Aslam & Stig Abell

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds

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A Good Read: Nick Hornby & Carlo Rovelli

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds

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Jeanine Cummins on American Dirt, and forgotten classic The Street with Tayari Jones

Published: Jan. 26, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Deepa Anappara on her debut novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Published: Jan. 19, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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100 Novels That Shaped Our World: Identity

Published: Jan. 12, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Graham Greene special

Published: Dec. 29, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Highlights of 2019

Published: Dec. 22, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Benjamin Markovits, PG Wodehouse, Family rows in novels and child prodigies

Published: Dec. 15, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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2019 books, Andre Aciman and David Bowie

Published: Dec. 8, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Russell Kane & Sarah Perry

Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Lee Child on his first book of non-fiction, The Hero

Published: Nov. 24, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Nemone Metaxas and Raymond Antrobus

Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Ben Lerner, Women's auto fiction and Ian Rankin

Published: Nov. 17, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Damian Le Bas & Amy Liptrott

Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 11:37 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Kathy O'Shaughnessy, George Eliot, Literary Magazines and Jason Reynolds

Published: Nov. 10, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Stewart Lee & Dave Haslam

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Lisa Jewell & Aditya Chakrabortty

Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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John Gordon Sinclair and Kerry Ellis

Published: Oct. 29, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Andrew Michael Hurley, best novels of 1995, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Published: Oct. 27, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Literary Norwich Special

Published: Oct. 20, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Poorna Bell and Tony Law

Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Emma Donoghue, Spy Fiction, Harper Lee's Unpublished True Crime Novel

Published: Oct. 13, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Edith Bowman and Harry Baker

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Colin Greenwood and Joanne McNally

Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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Dana Czapnik, Black Death novels, Imani Perry on Corregidora by Gayl Jones.

Published: Sept. 29, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A special American-themed edition with Ann Patchett and rising star Jia Tolentino.

Published: Sept. 22, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Robert Harris

Published: Sept. 15, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Deborah Levy, therapists in fiction, India's richest literary prize, Lorca's symbolism

Published: Sept. 8, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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What are young people writing and reading?

Published: Aug. 25, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Benjamin Myers, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Valeria Luiselli

Published: Aug. 18, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Colm Toibin on Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, Mary Beth Keane, the best novels of 1979

Published: Aug. 11, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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David Nicholls discusses his latest novel Sweet Sorrow

Published: July 28, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Pam Hogg and Mark Billingham talk favourite books

Published: July 23, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Open Book: Ocean Vuong; Bauhaus novels; Sudan literary postcard

Published: July 21, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Dolly Alderton and Clare Mackintosh talk favourite books

Published: July 16, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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On the centenary of her birth Open Book celebrates the novels of Iris Murdoch

Published: July 14, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read: Dom Joly and Kate Hamer talk favourite books

Published: July 9, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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A Good Read: Mathew Baynton and Aasmah Mir talk favourite books

Published: July 2, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Will Eaves on Alan Turing; The Moon in Fiction and Poetry; Afrofuturism

Published: June 30, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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A Good Read: Nicci Gerrard and Gary Younge talk favourite books

Published: June 25, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Open Book: Kevin Barry, queer nature writing, turning podcasts into books

Published: June 23, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Cathy Newman and Jeffery Deaver talk favourite books

Published: June 18, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Open Book: Carolina Setterwall, Re-reading and what it offers, Shadowplay reviewed, Ahmad Danny Ramadan

Published: June 16, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read: Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Hannah Peel talk favourite books

Published: June 12, 2019, 11:06 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds

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Pajtim Statovci, Gerald Murnane discussed, Roxane Gay's favourite book, Benjamin Dreyer

Published: June 9, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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A Good Read: Stephen Morris and Pippa Evans talk favourite books

Published: June 4, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Mia Couto and Wayétu Moore, Mr B's Bookshop, Claire Alexander

Published: May 26, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Ben Smith and Julia Blackburn on Doggerland; Ghana's literary scene; Rosie Price

Published: May 19, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Open Book: Bernardine Evaristo, Victorian showmen in fiction, Graeme Simsion, Faber at 90

Published: May 12, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Open Book considers the rich heritage and bright future of working class writing

Published: April 28, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 9 seconds

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Ali Smith, Easter Eggs in fiction and Cate Blanchett's books to live by

Published: April 21, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Damian Barr on his novel, You Will Be Safe Here and Candice Carty Williams' debut, Queenie

Published: April 14, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Open Book: Taylor Jenkins Reid, Older Characters in Fiction, Baseball books

Published: March 31, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Nicola Walker and Sarah Ann Kennedy talk favourite books

Published: March 26, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Siri Hustvedt, Witches in Fiction, British Library's Erotica Collection

Published: March 24, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 36 seconds

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A Good Read: Martin Rowson and Ayesha Hazarika talk favourite books

Published: March 19, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Max Porter, Folk resurgence in literature, Angie Thomas on Hip Hop

Published: March 17, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Russell Tovey and Sarah Hadland talk favourite books

Published: March 12, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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What Makes a Jewish Book; Colm Tóibín on Natalia Ginzburg; Censorship in Kuwait

Published: March 10, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Lemn Sissay and Mick Herron talk favourite books

Published: March 5, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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A Good Read: Kate Bottley and Ken Cheng talk favourite books

Published: Feb. 26, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Whitney Scharer, Fashion in fiction, Novels by Iraq War veterans

Published: Feb. 24, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Tracey Thorn and Maggie O' Farrell talk favourite books

Published: Feb. 19, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Niklas Natt Och Dag on his debut novel, The Wolf and the Watchman

Published: Feb. 17, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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A Good Read: Lucy Porter and Frank Cottrell-Boyce talk favourite books

Published: Feb. 12, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Kristen Roupenian, Javier Cercas, Quakers in fiction

Published: Feb. 12, 2019, 12:02 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Brett Westwood and Kamal Ahmed talk favourite books

Published: Feb. 5, 2019, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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A Good Read: Scarlett Curtis and Catherine Bohart talk favourite books

Published: Jan. 29, 2019, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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Chloe Aridjis, Adam Foulds and Leo Benedictus on fictional stalkers, Gay's the Word Bookshop at 40

Published: Jan. 27, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Caribbean Writing with Claire Adam, Jamaica Kincaid and Jacob Ross

Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Oyinkan Braithwaite, Books as clutter, Kafka's legacy, True crime in fiction

Published: Jan. 13, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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John Steinbeck

Published: Jan. 2, 2019, 2:24 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Festive short stories, Hangovers in fiction, Christmas novels, Book choices for 2019

Published: Dec. 23, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Joyce Carol Oates, Wind in the Willows and Orphans in literature

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 2:50 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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Donald S Murray, Lyrics and poetry, publishing in Iceland and Greenland

Published: Dec. 9, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read: Gráinne Maguire and John Higgs talk favourite books

Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Lee Child on his latest book, Past Tense

Published: Nov. 25, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 7 seconds

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A Good Read: George the Poet and Andy McNab talk favourite books

Published: Nov. 20, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Barbara Kingsolver on her new novel, Unsheltered.

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 5:35 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Open Book: Barbara Kingsolver, Northern Irish writing, India’s gay fiction

Published: Nov. 18, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Kamila Shamsie and Jeffrey Archer talk favourite books

Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Open Book: Fiction following the Armistice; Beowulf reimagined; James Daunt

Published: Nov. 11, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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A Good Read: Katie Derham and Matt Haig talk favourite books

Published: Nov. 6, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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A Good Read: Sindhu Vee and Phil Wang talk favourite books

Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Open Book: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Minette Walters

Published: Oct. 28, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read: Liz Carr and Kate Williams talk favourite books

Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds

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Open Book: Liane Moriarty

Published: Oct. 21, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Ben Miller and Danny Wallace talk favourite books

Published: Oct. 16, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Open Book: Hector Abad, Horror fiction

Published: Oct. 14, 2018, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read: Grace Dent and Sian Harries talk favourite books

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 19 seconds

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A Good Read: Nikesh Shukla and Leone Ross talk favourite books

Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Open Book: Gail Jones, 1930's crime stories and the Tower of London's Ravens

Published: Sept. 25, 2018, 8:58 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Open Book: Gail Jones, 1930s' crime fiction, Marlowe and Holmes revisited

Published: Sept. 23, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Open Book: Lavinia Greenlaw, Venezuelan literature, audio books and graphic novels

Published: Sept. 16, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Open Book: John Boyne discusses his new novel, A Ladder to the Sky

Published: Sept. 9, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Open Book: Richard Powers and nature writing

Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 10:38 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Open Book: Literary Criticism

Published: Aug. 19, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Open Book: Claire Fuller, Neil Gaiman and literature in Iran

Published: Aug. 13, 2018, 9:45 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Open Book: Islands in fiction

Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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A Good Read: Anne-Marie Duff and Louise O'Neill

Published: July 24, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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Open Book: Daisy Johnson on her debut novel, Everything Under

Published: July 22, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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A Good Read: Samira Ahmed and Elis James

Published: July 17, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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Open Book: Michael Donker on his novel, Hold and poet Jackie Kay on the work of Audre Lorde

Published: July 15, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read: Isy Suttie and Lolly Adefope talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert

Published: July 10, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Open Book: A M Homes on her new short story collection Days of Awe

Published: July 9, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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A Good Read: Loyd Grossman & Skin

Published: July 3, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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A Good Read: Juno Dawson & Pandora Sykes

Published: June 26, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Exploring the lives of Beiruti women and Ceridwen Dovey

Published: June 24, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read: Tony Parsons and Olly Mann talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert

Published: June 19, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Michael Ondaatje on his new novel, Warlight.

Published: June 17, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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A Good Read: Adam Kay and Farrah Jarral talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert

Published: June 12, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Cressida Connolly on her new book After the Party

Published: June 10, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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A Good Read: Robert Webb and Hugo Rifkind

Published: June 5, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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Fiona Kidman, children's non fiction and celebrating 30 years of the Lambda Literary Award

Published: May 27, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Anthony Horowitz on his new James Bond novel

Published: May 20, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Crime writer John Harvey on his new book Body and Soul

Published: April 29, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Carys Davies on her new novel, West and the work of Octavia Butler

Published: April 22, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Jennifer Clement on her latest novel, the London Book fair and Tony Parsons on the book he'd never lend.

Published: April 15, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Diana Evans, the fictional lives of painters and bringing books to life on stage

Published: April 8, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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A Good Read: Phill Jupitus and Robin Ince

Published: March 27, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds

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Uzodinma Iweala on his new book 'Speak No Evil'

Published: March 27, 2018, 10:34 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Bernardine Evaristo and Jolyon Rubinstein share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert

Published: March 20, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Joseph Knox and Stella Duffy on Ngaio Marsh

Published: March 18, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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A Good Read: Nina Stibbe and Kit de Waal talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert

Published: March 13, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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James Wood, childhood reading and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Published: March 11, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read: Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz

Published: March 6, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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A Good Read: Diana Henry and Mark Miodownik on their favourite books

Published: Feb. 27, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds

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Jessie Greengrass on her new novel, Sight and what the suffragettes read in prison

Published: Feb. 25, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read: Sathnam Sanghera and Hadley Freeman talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert

Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Jane Harper on her new book Force of Nature

Published: Feb. 18, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Julian Barnes and other literary love stories

Published: Feb. 11, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read: Ruby Tandoh and Jake Yapp on favourite books by René Goscinny, Nora Ephron and Ian McEwan

Published: Feb. 6, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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A Good Read: Stephen Fry and Alan Davies discuss dystopian visions, childhood traumas and tips for writers.

Published: Jan. 30, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Dirk Kurbjuweit discusses his new book, The Fear and Nicola Sturgeon's favourite reads

Published: Jan. 28, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Leila Slimane on her book Lullaby and translating Turkish and Russian literature

Published: Jan. 21, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Celebrating Muriel Spark and writing about post traumatic stress

Published: Jan. 14, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Dystopian Fiction

Published: Dec. 31, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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David Walliams talks to Mariella Frostrup

Published: Dec. 28, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Christmas literary gifts and Hunter Davies on his late wife, Margaret Forster and her diaries.

Published: Dec. 17, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Lionel Shriver and celebrating the 100th birthday of Finland

Published: Dec. 10, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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A Good Read 28 November 2017: Nish Kumar and Katy Brand

Published: Nov. 28, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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The Great American Novel and the merits of reading aloud

Published: Nov. 26, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 25 seconds

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A Good Read 21 November 2017: Alexei Sayle and Meg Rosoff

Published: Nov. 21, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Jennifer Egan

Published: Nov. 19, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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A Good Read 14 November 2017: Jon McGregor and Cathy Rentzenbrink

Published: Nov. 14, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read 7 November 2017: Rick Edwards & George Lamb

Published: Nov. 7, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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A Good Read 31 October 2017: Jenny Colgan & Steven Camden (Polarbear)

Published: Oct. 31, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Graeme Macrae Burnet on his 'fiction within a fiction', The Accident on the A35

Published: Oct. 29, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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A Good Read 24 October 2017: Alice Lowe and Andrew Hunter Murray

Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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40 years In Patagonia, Nathan Englander and Sandi Toksvig's new children's novel

Published: Oct. 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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A Good Read 17 October 2017: Owen Jones & Georgia LA

Published: Oct. 17, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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Omar El Akkad's new novel American War and Nordic short stories

Published: Oct. 15, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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A Good Read 10 October 2017: Jonathan Harvey & Sally Lindsay

Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Alan Hollinghurst on his new novel, The Sparsholt Affair.

Published: Oct. 8, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read 3 October 2017: Toby Young & Sarah Vine

Published: Oct. 5, 2017, 2:08 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Clare Messud on The Burning Girl and theatrical memoirs

Published: Sept. 24, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Helen Sedgwick, the York Writer's Festival and up and coming writers from Australia

Published: Sept. 17, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Daryl Gregory and the importance of John Donne's love poems

Published: Sept. 10, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Revisiting Greek myths with Kamila Shamsie and David Vann

Published: Aug. 27, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Fredrick Backman, Outriders and writing to music

Published: Aug. 13, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 39 seconds

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The Chalke Valley History Festival

Published: July 30, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read 25 July 2017: John Niven & Sali Hughes

Published: July 25, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Fiona Melrose, transgender characters in fiction and the book Susan Hill would never end

Published: July 23, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Elizabeth Day, Patrick Ness and the Bradford Literary Festival

Published: July 16, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds

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A Good Read 11 July 2017: Stacey Dooley & Gaia Vince

Published: July 11, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Matt Haig, Val McDermid and a postcard from Argentina

Published: July 9, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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A Good Read 4 July 2017: Kathy Burke & Tom Allen

Published: July 4, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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A Good Read 27 June 2017: Bill Paterson & Tom Chatfield

Published: June 27, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Mark Haddon on Virginia Woolf and Ruth Ware discusses her new novel, The Lying Game

Published: June 25, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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A Good Read 20 June 2017: Verity Sharp & Matthew Syed

Published: June 20, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Thomas Keneally, Meike Ziervogel and pet peeves in books

Published: June 18, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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A Good Read 13 June 2017: Nathan Caton & Adam Rutherford

Published: June 13, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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A Good Read 6 June 2017 Ed Byrne & Hardeep Singh Kohli

Published: June 9, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Tim Winton

Published: May 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Gail Honeyman and Nell Stevens

Published: May 21, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Writers' memoirs, the libraries of Timbuktu and George Eliot

Published: May 14, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Paula Hawkins and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published: April 30, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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Lisa McInerney, regional writing and a postcard from Cuba

Published: April 23, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Luiza Sauma and Easter reading

Published: April 16, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Open Book:Jon McGregor

Published: April 10, 2017, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds

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A Good Read 28 March 2017: Will Self & Rachel Johnson

Published: March 28, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Balli Kaur Jaswal, Alison Macleod and Ra Page

Published: March 26, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read 21 March 2017: Chris & Xand Van Tulleken

Published: March 21, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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George Saunders discusses his new book Lincoln in the Bardo

Published: March 19, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read 14 March 2017: Harriet Harman & Pete Paphides

Published: March 14, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Helen Dunmore and Fiona Kidman on the Book I'd Never Lend

Published: March 12, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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A Good Read 7 March 2017: Tony Robinson & Andi Oliver

Published: March 7, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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A Good Read 28 February 2017: Craig Brown & Pippa Evans

Published: Feb. 28, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Mohsin Hamid, North Korean literature and Editor's Pick

Published: Feb. 26, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds

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A Good Read 21 February: Murray Lachlan Young & Deborah Frances-Wood

Published: Feb. 21, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Dorthe Nors, Nadiya Hussain, age gap relationships and vampires

Published: Feb. 19, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 33 seconds

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A Good Read 14 February 2017: Lionel Shriver & Mae Martin

Published: Feb. 14, 2017, 2:22 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Joanna Trollope, literature from the Mid West and African romance fiction.

Published: Feb. 12, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 11 seconds

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A Good Read 7 February 2017: Victor Adebowale & Rachel Unthank

Published: Feb. 7, 2017, 6:14 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds

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A Good Read 31 January 2017: Alan Carr & Melanie Sykes

Published: Jan. 31, 2017, 6:21 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Yaa Gyasi

Published: Jan. 29, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Tessa Hadley, Female Friendships and the Russian Revolution

Published: Jan. 22, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 30 seconds

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James Lasdun, Crime Fiction for 2017 and book bestsellers

Published: Jan. 15, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds

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Literary Postcards

Published: Jan. 11, 2017, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Nadeem Aslam, book translating and unhappy books which make us happy

Published: Jan. 8, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Shirley Jackson and a literary round-up for 2016

Published: Dec. 18, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 35 seconds

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Henrietta Rose-Innes and Terry Waite

Published: Dec. 11, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 2 seconds

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Jay McInerney

Published: Dec. 4, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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A Good Read 29 November 2016: John Bird & John Timpson

Published: Nov. 29, 2016, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Writers Helen Garner and Charlotte Wood and the history of audio books

Published: Nov. 27, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 12 seconds

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A Good Read 22 November 2016: Charles Moore & Nadifa Mohamed

Published: Nov. 22, 2016, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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David Grossman and Steve McCurry

Published: Nov. 20, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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A Good Read 15 November 2016: Michael Grade & Gia Milinovich

Published: Nov. 15, 2016, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 12 seconds

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Margaret Drabble Louis de Bernieres and a passion for islands

Published: Nov. 13, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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A Good Read 8 November 2016: Sally Phillips & Julia Donaldson

Published: Nov. 8, 2016, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Published: Nov. 6, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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A Good Read 1 November: Terry Christian & Dr Kevin Fong

Published: Nov. 1, 2016, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark and Brit Bennett

Published: Oct. 30, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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A Good Read 25 October 2016: Cariad Lloyd & Mike Bullen

Published: Oct. 25, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Sebastian Barry, Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood

Published: Oct. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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A Good Read 18 October 2016: Sebastian Faulks & Sarfraz Manzoor

Published: Oct. 18, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Graham Norton; Close Reading Henry James; Michelle Paver on the Himalayas.

Published: Oct. 16, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 27 seconds

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A Good Read 11 October 2016: Bidisha & Gillian Reynolds

Published: Oct. 11, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Tommy Wieringa, Flemish and Dutch literature, Fashion in fiction, Stewart Lee on Ithell Colquhoun

Published: Oct. 9, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read 4 October 2016: Ann Widdecombe & Vince Cable

Published: Oct. 4, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Open Book - Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs on Sex and Death

Published: Sept. 25, 2016, 3:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Open Book with Donal Ryan

Published: Sept. 18, 2016, 3:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Open Book on Jonathan Safran Foer

Published: Sept. 12, 2016, 8:32 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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Open Book in Edinburgh - Crime Writing with Val McDermid, Abir Mukherjee and Lucy Ribchester

Published: Aug. 28, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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Open Book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Published: Aug. 21, 2016, 3:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Open Book with Colin Thubron

Published: Aug. 14, 2016, 3:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Open Book - Reading Europe

Published: July 31, 2016, 3:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Open Book - Evelyn Waugh, DBC Pierre, a literary postcard from Sweden

Published: July 28, 2016, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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A Good Read 26 July 2016: Christopher Biggins & Jenny Eclair

Published: July 26, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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A Good Read 19 July 2016: Lloyd Langford & Francesca Simon

Published: July 19, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Open Book - Awesome Authors: Children's Literature with Frank Cottrell Boyce and Bali Rai

Published: July 17, 2016, 3:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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