Books and Authors Podcast
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.
Episodes to download
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Best of Young British Novelists 2023
Sun 16 Apr 2023
Octavia Bright discusses Granta's once in a decade list of new writing talent
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Contemporary Indian Writing in the spotlight
Sun 9 Apr 2023
Contemporary Indian Writing in the spotlight
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A Good Read: Donna Leon and Margaret Heffernan
Tue 28 Mar 2023
A crime author and a writer-entrepreneur talk books they love.
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Javier Mar铆as
Sun 26 Mar 2023
Chris Power discusses the last novel from the late Spanish writer Javier Mar铆as.
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A Good Read: Katherine May and Liz Berry
Tue 21 Mar 2023
Author Katherine May and poet Liz Berry talk about their favourite books with Harriett.
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Eleanor Catton
Sun 19 Mar 2023
Eleanor Catton talks to Chris Power about her new eco-thriller, Birnam Wood
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A Good Read: Sophie Raworth and Patrick Ness
Tue 14 Mar 2023
The newsreader and the writer chat about books with Harriett.
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Margaret Atwood and Sam Selvon
Sun 12 Mar 2023
Johny 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
Tue 7 Mar 2023
The broadcaster and comedian discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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A Good Read: Philippa Perry and Anil Seth
Tue 28 Feb 2023
A psychotherapist and a Professor of Neuroscience talk about books they love.
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Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel
Sun 26 Feb 2023
Tom 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
Tue 21 Feb 2023
A columnist and an arts journalist choose their favourite books.
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Aleksandar Hemon, Roddy Doyle on Soul, and Dorothy Tse on Hong Kong
Sun 19 Feb 2023
Chris 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
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Art historian Kate Bryan and comedian Mark Steel talk about their favourite books.
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A Good Read
Tue 7 Feb 2023
Favourite books chosen by well known guests and presenter Harriett Gilbert
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Dark Academia with Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg. Plus Saba Sams' Book I'd Never Lend
Sun 29 Jan 2023
Chris Power discusses one of the most talked about trends in publishing
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Really Good, Actually
Sun 22 Jan 2023
Monica 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
Sun 15 Jan 2023
Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
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Katherine Mansfield
Sun 8 Jan 2023
Chris Power explores the writing of Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death.
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Agatha Christie at Christmas
Boxing Day 2022
Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection to the festive season
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Katherine Rundell
Sun 18 Dec 2022
Chris Power talks to the author of The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures.
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Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz Open Book
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Chris Power discusses a year in books with Ellah Wakatama and Kate Mosse.
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A Good Read: Frank Turner and Ellie Gibson
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Books about tidying, music and addiction, and a desire to write are this week's choices.
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A Good Read: Shaparak Khorsandi and Anne Hegerty
Tue 22 Nov 2022
A disgraced university tutor, a dysfunctional family, and a love-letter to literature.
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A Good Read: Philippa Forrester and Dwayne Fields
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Two very-different memoirs and a tale of two women on an adventure feature this week.
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