Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best known novels
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Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best known novels
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Available since Sun, 1 Nov 2009.
James Naughtie talks to Linda Grant about her novel, When I Lived in Modern Times.
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Available since Sun, 11 Oct 2009.
James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust.
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Available since Sun, 6 Sep 2009.
James Naughtie talks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild Places.
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Available since Sun, 2 Aug 2009.
James Naughtie and readers talk to bestselling writer CJ Sansom about Dissolution.
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Available since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty.
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CLIVE JAMES : Unreliable Memoirs
5.30pm Weds 2 December
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ORHAN PAMUK : My Name is Red
4pm Tues 12 January
BBC Bush House, Aldwych, London WC2
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LYNNE REID BANKS : The L-Shaped Room
4.30pm Weds 13 February
BBC Bush House, Aldwych, London WC2
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December
(Sunday 6 December and Thursday 10 December)
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by JOHN IRVING
(Programme already recorded)
January
(Sunday 3 January and Thursday 7 January)
44 SCOTLAND STREET by Alexander McCall Smith
(Programme already recorded)
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