World Book Club
Summary: From Alice Walker to Chinua Achebe, the world's greatest authors discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions from BBC World Service listeners.
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Podcasts:
Nobel Prize winner V. S Naipaul discussess his book 'A House for Mr Biswas' with an audience of World Service listeners. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
Nigerian born writer Ben Okri discusses his novel The Famished Rose. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy talks to the programme about winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Martin Amis joins an audience of World Service listeners to answer questions about his novel Money.
What makes Stephen King, not only the Master of Horror, but more than that?
In the First ever Meridian Writing World Book Club, Harriett Gilbert talks to American writer Garrison Keillor on his book Lake Wobegon Days.
Interview with the playwright and director, David Hare.
Interview with American poet, memoirist, actress, Maya Angelou. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Harriett Gilbert talks to the Zimbabwean poet and novelist Chenjerai Hove about his latest novel 'Ancestors'.
Harriett Gilbert talks to the Egyptian writer, Bahaa Taher an Egyptian novelist who writes in Arabic and is the winner of the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction, awarded in 2008.
Interview with Iain Sinclair on his book, 'London Orbital'. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
