336 Episodes

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

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

    Published: 02/12/2018
  3. Historian Antonia Fraser discuss her book The Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 05/11/2018
  4. Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney

    Published: 04/11/2018
  5. Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family

    Published: 07/10/2018
  6. Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

    Published: 02/09/2018
  7. John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany.

    Published: 23/08/2018
  8. Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

    Published: 05/08/2018
  9. Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing

    Published: 20/07/2018
  10. Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn

    Published: 01/07/2018
  11. Jan Morris discusses her classic travel book Venice

    Published: 14/06/2018
  12. Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

    Published: 03/06/2018
  13. William Trevor discusses his short story collection After Rain

    Published: 17/05/2018
  14. Jo Nesbo talks about his book, The Snowman

    Published: 06/05/2018
  15. Thomas Keneally discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark

    Published: 17/04/2018
  16. Sarah Perry discusses her novel, The Essex Serpent

    Published: 01/04/2018
  17. Muriel Spark discusses the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    Published: 15/03/2018
  18. Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter

    Published: 04/03/2018
  19. Douglas Adams discusses The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Published: 14/02/2018
  20. Eimear McBride talks about her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

    Published: 04/02/2018

5 / 17

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

Visit the podcast's native language site