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:
Amitav 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 discusses his Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question with Harriett Gilbert and a theatre audience at the first London Soho Festival.
British 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.
In 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.
A 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 talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
On 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
Maori novelist Witi Ihimaera discusses his haunting novel The Whale Rider with presenter Harriett Gilbert and an audience at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
Acclaimed British writer Penelope Lively discusses her Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger with Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and listeners around the world.
Acclaimed Israeli writer David Grossman talks to presenter Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about prize-winning novel To the End of the Land.
Lionel Shriver talks to Harriett Gilbert and a group of readers in and out of the studio about her controversial novel We Need to Talk about Kevin.
Libyan writer Hisham Matar talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his chilling novel 'In the Country of Men'.
Award-winning writer Colm Toibin talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his haunting novel Brooklyn.
Internationally acclaimed Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell discusses his bestselling thriller Faceless Killers with Harriett Gilbert and an audience in St Mary Magdeleine Church in Woodstock, England
Acclaimed crime writer Val McDermid talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about her bestselling thriller A Place of Execution.
