William reviews The Secret Scripture and The Truth Commissioner, with the critic Patricia Craig and the educationalist Colette Murphy and talks to Lord Owen about听the Sickness and Illness of Leaders.
Sexual revolutionaries: Roger Casement's black diaries and the passionate love affair between Jean Paul Sartre and Simon de Beauvoir. Guarding the guardians of taste and talent: 听How can you tell a good critic from a bad one?听And William talks to poet Bernard O'Donoghue.
Journalist and author Nick Davies talks to William aboout his book听Flat Earth News and Fionnoula Meredith听 and Anne McCartney review Irish women's literature by Marion Keyes and Anita Notaro. Margaret Ritchie reveals what books have inspired her.
William Crawley talks to the Booker Prize-winning Scottish writer, James Kelman, about his latest novel telling of a boy growing up in Glasgow, two Ulster journalists dissect two Troubles books and the chef Paula McIntyre unveils her literary tastes.
William Crawley talks to the novelist David Lodge about the academic, and the writer's, life, engages with two political dynasties - the Bush family and the Medicis of Renaissance Florence - learns how to make a book a success, and tries to read Stormont minister Arlene Foster like a book.
William travelled south to talk to Maeve Binchy about the secret of her phenomenal success and about her new book - also we ask a former spy to read the new James Bond novel from Sebastian Faulks. William visits the artist Jack Pakenham in his studios to see which books have coloured his palate.
