Books And Authors
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 423:00:32
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Synopsis
This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. In Open Book Mariella Frostrup talks to authors about their work. In A Good Read Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books.
Episodes
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Javier Marías
26/03/2023 Duration: 27minChris Power discusses the last novel from the late Spanish writer Javier Marías.
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A Good Read: Katherine May and Liz Berry
21/03/2023 Duration: 27minAuthor Katherine May and poet Liz Berry talk about their favourite books with Harriett.
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Eleanor Catton
19/03/2023 Duration: 27minEleanor Catton talks to Chris Power about her new eco-thriller, Birnam Wood
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A Good Read: Sophie Raworth and Patrick Ness
14/03/2023 Duration: 28minThe newsreader and the writer chat about books with Harriett.
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Margaret Atwood and Sam Selvon
12/03/2023 Duration: 27minJohny Pitts explores the work of two writers who have combined comedy with tragedy
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A Good Read: Janet Street-Porter and Felicity Ward
07/03/2023 Duration: 27minThe broadcaster and comedian discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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Philippa Perry and Anil Seth
28/02/2023 Duration: 27minPsychotherapist writer Philippa Perry and Professor of Neuroscience Anil Seth join Harriett Gilbert to talk about books they love. Anil Seth, who explores consciousness and the self in his book Being You, recommends Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, where our near-future world is seen through the eyes of an Artificial Friend. Philippa Perry's choice is A Stranger City by Linda Grant, a novel with a mystery at its heart and is about how lives interweave in the city. And Harriett Gilbert loves the non-fiction book Being Mortal by American surgeon Atul Gawande, which asks what medicine is for in the face of death. Comment on instagram: @agoodreadbbc Produced by Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio in Bristol
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Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel
26/02/2023 Duration: 27minTom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel
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A Good Read: James Marriott and Jude Rogers
21/02/2023 Duration: 27minColumnist at The Times James Marriott and arts journalist for The Guardian Jude Rogers discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. James picks The Past by Tessa Hadley, a contemporary novel about family, place and the modern world encroaching upon the old; Jude recommends Border Country by Raymond Williams, a semi-autobiographical story of a man returning home to his small village on the Welsh borders, and how it's changed over a century; and Harriett loves A Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt, about a woman re-examining her life in after her husband's rejection. Do you agree with their assessments? Join us on Instagram @agoodreadbbc Produced by Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio in Bristol.
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Aleksandar Hemon, Roddy Doyle on Soul, and Dorothy Tse on Hong Kong
19/02/2023 Duration: 27minChris Power talks to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds
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A Good Read: Kate Bryan and Mark Steel
17/02/2023 Duration: 27minArt historian Kate Bryan and comedian Mark Steel talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books. Kate loves Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing, an inspiring collection of essays which make a case for why art matters. Mark is a big fan of Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle, a comedic memoir about growing up in a Jewish atheist communist family in Liverpool. And Harriett puts forward Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, in which a present-day story converges with ancient rituals to provoke a discussion about how far we have come from the “primitive minds” of our ancestors. Comment on instagram: @agoodreadbbc Produced by Becky Ripley
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A Good Read
07/02/2023 Duration: 27minFavourite books chosen by well known guests and presenter Harriett Gilbert
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A Good Read
31/01/2023 Duration: 27minGuest choose favourite books to discuss with Harriett Gilbert
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Dark Academia with Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg. Plus Saba Sams' Book I'd Never Lend
29/01/2023 Duration: 27minChris Power discusses one of the most talked about trends in publishing
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Really Good, Actually
22/01/2023 Duration: 27minMonica Heisey talks to Johny Pitts about her debut novel about divorce in your twenties
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Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
15/01/2023 Duration: 27minJane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
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Katherine Mansfield
08/01/2023 Duration: 27minChris Power explores the writing of Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death.
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Agatha Christie at Christmas
26/12/2022 Duration: 27minJohny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection to the festive season
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Katherine Rundell
18/12/2022 Duration: 27minChris Power talks to the author of The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures.