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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A Good Read 8 December 2015
Tue 1 Dec 2015
Dr Christian Jessen and James Wong nominate their favourite books, with Harriett Gilbert.
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A Good Read 24 November 2015
Tue 24 Nov 2015
Harriett Gilbert debates favourite books with Shirley Williams and Margaret Drabble.
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Open Book - William Boyd on Sweet Caress
Sun 22 Nov 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to William Boyd about his novel Sweet Caress
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A Good Read 17 November 2015
Tue 17 Nov 2015
Niall Ferguson and Tracy Chevalier talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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Open Book - Edna O'Brien on The Little Red Chairs
Sun 15 Nov 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to Edna O'Brien about The Little Red Chairs
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A Good Read 10 November 2015
Tue 10 Nov 2015
Short Jonathan Coe and Gemma Cairney join Harriett Gilbert to recommend favourite books.
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Open Book - Jeremy Gavron, Kate Grenville and Eugene Vodolazkin
Sun 8 Nov 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to Jeremy Gavron, Kate Grenville and Eugene Vodolazkin
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A Good Read 3 November 2015
Tue 3 Nov 2015
Krishnan Guru-Murthy and crime writer Ann Cleeves talk about books with Harriett Gilbert.
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A Good Read 20 October 2015
Wed 28 Oct 2015
Spectator editor Fraser Nelson & critic Adam Mars-Jones talk books with Harriett Gilbert.
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A Good Read 27 October 2015
Tue 27 Oct 2015
Philip Pullman & Caroline Criado-Perez talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert.
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Open Book - Adam Sisman on his biography of John Le Carre
Sun 25 Oct 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to Adam Sisman about his biography of John Le Carre
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Open Book - Jonathan Lee on High Dive
Sun 18 Oct 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to Jonathan Lee about his new novel High Dive
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A Good Read 13 October 2015
Wed 14 Oct 2015
David Morrissey and Julia Blackburn join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books.
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Open Book - Andrew Michael Hurley and British Gothic
Sun 11 Oct 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to Andrew Hurley about The Loney
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A Good Read 6 October 2015
Tue 6 Oct 2015
Green MP Caroline Lucas and columnist Rod Liddle debate books with Harriett Gilbert.
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Open Book - Orhan Pamuk on A Strangeness in my Mind
Sun 27 Sep 2015
Open Book - Mariella Frostrup talks to Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk
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A Good Read 27 July 2015
Wed 23 Sep 2015
Miriam Margolyes and Mark Haddon talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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Open Book - Bill Clegg on Did You Ever Have a Family?
Sun 20 Sep 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to literary agent turned author Bill Clegg
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Open Book - John Banville on The Blue Guitar
Sun 13 Sep 2015
Open Book with Mariella Frostrup - John Banville on The Blue Guitar
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Bookclub: David Nicholls talks about his novel One Day
Sun 6 Sep 2015
David Nicholls talks about his novel One Day
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Open Book Special - Pat Barker
Sun 30 Aug 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to Pat Barker about her life, work and her new novel Noonday.
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Open Book - Leila Aboulela
Sun 16 Aug 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to Leila Aboulela about her new novel The Kindness of Enemies.
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Open Book Special: Why We Read
Mon 10 Aug 2015
Mariella Frostrop and guests discuss why we love to read
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Open Book - Petina Gappah
Sun 9 Aug 2015
Open Book - Mariella Frostrup talks to Petina Gappah about The Book of Memory
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Open Book - Virginia Baily and Jacqueline Wilson
Sun 26 Jul 2015
Open Book - Virginia Baily on Early One Morning; Jacqueline Wilson on Katy
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A Good Read 21 July 2015
Tue 21 Jul 2015
Sue Blackmore and Adam Hart-Davis join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books.
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Open Book - Judy Blume
Sun 19 Jul 2015
Judy Blume talks about her new book for adults, In The Unlikely Event.
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Open Book - Sean Michaels; Rachel Johnson and Michelle Miller
Sun 12 Jul 2015
Novelist Sean Michaels on Us Conductors, the story of the inventor of the theremin.
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A Good Read 7 July 2015
Wed 8 Jul 2015
Comedian Julian Clary and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis talk favourite books
Books
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