World Book Club
World Book Club invites the globe’s great authors to discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions by World Service listeners.
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Recent episodes (10)
Amitva Ghosh
Sat, 26 May 12
Duration:
54 minsAmitav Ghosh talks to Harriett Gilbert and a theatre audience at the Nehru Centre in London about his haunting novel The Shadowlines, in this the last of our London Calling series of progammes focussing on the UK capital.
Howard Jacobson
Sat, 19 May 12
Duration:
54 minsHoward Jacobson discusses his Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question with Harriett Gilbert and a theatre audience at the first London Soho Festival.
Andrea Levy London Calling
Sat, 12 May 12
Duration:
54 minsBritish novelist Andrea Levy revisits the London setting of her bestselling novel Small Island and then chats to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about it.
Peter Ackroyd
Sat, 5 May 12
Duration:
54 minsIn a series of World Book Clubs focussing on London Harriett Gilbert talks to bestselling author Peter Ackroyd and an audience about his award-winning novel Hawksmoor in St George's Church Bloomsbury.
Toni Morrison Repeat
Sat, 7 Apr 12
Duration:
53 minsA Repeat of the World Book Club in which Harriett Gilbert talks to bestselling US author Toni Morrison about her acclaimed novel Beloved
Jonathan Safran Foer
Sat, 3 Mar 12
Duration:
54 minsJonathan Safran Foer talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Charles Dickens - A Celebration
Sat, 4 Feb 12
Duration:
54 minsOn the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens Harriett Gilbert talks to Simon Callow and Claire Tomalin in London and guests around the world about Dickens and perhaps his greatest work Great Expectations
Witi Ihimaera
Sat, 7 Jan 12
Duration:
53 minsMaori novelist Witi Ihimaera discusses his haunting novel The Whale Rider with presenter Harriett Gilbert and an audience at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
Penelope Lively
Sat, 3 Dec 11
Duration:
53 minsAcclaimed British writer Penelope Lively discusses her Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger with Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and listeners around the world.
David Grossman
Sat, 5 Nov 11
Duration:
53 minsAcclaimed Israeli writer David Grossman talks to presenter Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about prize-winning novel To the End of the Land.
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