World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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World Book Club: David Mitchell
Sat 5 Jun 2010
Harriett Gilbert talks to David Mitchell about his novel Cloud Atlas.
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World Book Club: Richard Ford
Sat 1 May 2010
Richard Ford discusses his classic novel 'The Sportswriter' with Harriett Gilbert and a...
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World Book Club: J.M.G. Le Clezio
Sat 3 Apr 2010
Nobel prize winner JMG Le Clezio discusses his acclaimed novel Desert.
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World Book Club: John Boyne
Sat 6 Mar 2010
John Boyne discusses his acclaimed novel 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' with Harriett...
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World Book Club: Andrea Levy
Sat 6 Feb 2010
Harriet Gilbert talks to Andrea Levy about Small Island, a heart-warming and tale of lo...
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Kiran Desai
Sat 2 Jan 2010
Kiran Desai discusses her novel The Inheritance of Loss with Harriett Gilbert.
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World Book Club: James Ellroy
Sat 5 Dec 2009
James Ellroy discusses his novel American Tabloid with Harriett Gilbert and an invited ...
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World Book Club: Alaa Al Aswany
Sat 7 Nov 2009
Alaa Al Aswany talks about his acclaimed novel The Yacoubian Building.
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World Book Club: Gunter Grass
Sat 3 Oct 2009
Half a century on from its first publication, G锟絥ter Grass will be talking about The T...
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World Book Club: Lionel Shriver
Sat 4 Jul 2009
Lionel Shriver discusses her best selling novel We Need To Talk About Kevin.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun—World Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sat 6 Jun 2009
1/1 Harriett Gilbert talks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.
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Nawal El Saadawi - Woman At Point Zero—World Book Club: Nawal El Saadawi
Sat 2 May 2009
1/1 Harriett Gilbert talks to Nawal El Saadawi about her novel Woman At Point Zero
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Episode 1—World Book Club: Kate Grenville
Sat 4 Apr 2009
1/1 Harriett Gilbert talks to writer Kate Grenville about her book The Secret River.
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Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Sat 7 Mar 2009
Mohsin Hamid talks to Harriett Gilbert about his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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Episode 1
Sat 7 Feb 2009
Harriett Gilbert talks to David Guterson about his novel Snow Falling on Cedars.
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Toni Morrison - Beloved
Sat 3 Jan 2009
Harriett Gilbert talks to Toni Morrison about her novel Beloved.
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Derek Walcott
Tue 16 Dec 2008
Harriett Gilbert talks to Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott about his epic poem Omeros.
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Annie Proulx
Tue 30 Sep 2008
Annie Proulx talks about her works 'The Shipping News' & 'Brokeback Mountain'.
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Chinua Achebe
Wed 30 Jul 2008
Marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of the acclaimed novel Things Fall Apart.
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John Irving
Wed 25 Jun 2008
American author John Irving discusses his bestselling novel 'The World According to Garp'.
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28/05/2008
Wed 28 May 2008
Harriett Gilbert talks to Khaled Hosseini about his book The Kite Runner.
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Sebastian Faulks
Fri 2 May 2008
Best-selling English writer Sebastian Faulks talks about his novel Birdsong.
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Jane Smiley
Tue 1 Apr 2008
Jane Smiley discusses A Thousand Acres, her ambitious re-imagining of King Lear.
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Patricia Cornwell
Thu 28 Feb 2008
Patricia Cornwell talks about Post Mortem, the first novel in her Kay Scarpetta series.
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Edna O'Brien
Thu 31 Jan 2008
Irish writer Edna O'Brien discusses her novel about adolescence, The Country Girls.
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Sara Paretsky
Wed 28 Nov 2007
American crime writer Sara Paretsky talks about her detective novel 'Indemnity Only'.
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Michael Ondaatje
Fri 2 Nov 2007
Sri Lankan-born, Canadian author Michael Ondaatje discusses his novel The English Patient.
Ten Amazing Interviews
Favourite episodes of World Book Club, featuring Maya Angelou and Henning Mankell.
Crime Fiction
Henning Mankel, Patrica Cornwell, Jo Nesbo: stars of the genre discuss their craft.
Tales from History
From the tulip fields of 17th Century Amsterdam to the trenches of World War One.
