Books and Authors
BBC
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.
Location:
United Kingdom
Networks:
BBC
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Episodes
Really Good, Actually
1/22/2023
Monica Heisey talks to Johny Pitts about her debut novel about divorce in your twenties
Duration:00:27:40
Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
1/15/2023
Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
Duration:00:28:29
Katherine Mansfield
1/8/2023
Chris Power explores the writing of Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death.
Duration:00:28:46
Agatha Christie at Christmas
12/26/2022
Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection to the festive season
Duration:00:27:52
Katherine Rundell
12/18/2022
Chris Power talks to the author of The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures.
Duration:00:28:47
Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz Open Book
12/12/2022
Chris Power discusses a year in books with Ellah Wakatama and Kate Mosse.
Duration:00:28:23
A Good Read: Frank Turner and Ellie Gibson
11/29/2022
Books about tidying, music and addiction, and a desire to write are this week's choices.
Duration:00:29:22
Mariana Enríquez
11/27/2022
Mariana Enríquez
Duration:00:27:44
A Good Read: Shaparak Khorsandi and Anne Hegerty
11/22/2022
A disgraced university tutor, a dysfunctional family, and a love-letter to literature.
Duration:00:28:05
Cormac McCarthy, The Writers, Derek Owusu
11/20/2022
Cormac McCarthy, The Writers, Derek Owusu
Duration:00:28:14
A Good Read: Philippa Forrester and Dwayne Fields
11/15/2022
Two very-different memoirs and a tale of two women on an adventure feature this week.
Duration:00:30:07
Barbara Kingsolver, plus the "Social Novel" with John Lanchester and Ayisha Malik
11/13/2022
Barbara Kingsolver, plus the "Social Novel" with John Lanchester and Ayisha Malik
Duration:00:29:29
A Good Read: Heidi Regan & Neil Delamere
11/8/2022
Comedians Heidi Regan and Neil Delamere discuss their favourite all-time books with Harriett Gilbert. Heidi chooses a non-fiction book on the cult of positive thinking by the late Barbara Ehrenreich, called Smile or Die. Neil suggests a novel by Ronan Hession about two unambitious friends in their thirties; Leonard and Hungry Paul, and Harriett picks the novella Foster by Irish writer Claire Keegan, who has recently been nominated for the 2022 Booker Prize. Producer: Eliza Lomas for BBC...
Duration:00:27:56
A Good Read: Ria Lina & Otegha Uwagba
11/1/2022
The comedian Ria Lina - who's appeared on the BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You and Mock the Week - joins Otegha Uwagba - author of Little Black Book, Whites and We Need to Talk About Money - to talk to Harriett Gilbert about the books they love. Ria chooses Moll Flanders, the 18th-century classic by Daniel Defoe. Otegha picks the popular romance story Like Water for Chocolate by Mexican author Laura Esquivel and Harriett Gilbert brings a book about motherhood; Making Babies...
Duration:00:27:41
Colm Tóibín essays, Revisiting Shirley Hazzard
10/30/2022
Chris Power talks to Colm Tóibín about his essays on illness, religion and literature
Duration:00:27:47
A Good Read: Patience Agbabi and Andy Miller
10/25/2022
The poet and the writer choose their favourite books.
Duration:00:27:27
Writing Nature
10/23/2022
Writing Nature
Duration:00:27:44
A Good Read: Damian Barr and Ben Fergusson
10/18/2022
The writers choose the books they love to read.
Duration:00:27:30
William Boyd
10/16/2022
William Boyd discusses his new novel, The Romantics.
Duration:00:27:49
A Good Read: John Wilson and Chloe Petts
10/11/2022
The broadcaster and the comedian choose books they love
Duration:00:27:44