A Good Read Folgen

Co-founder of the Bradford Literature Festival, Syima Aslam and journalist Stig Abell join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Jane Austen, JK Rowling and Virginia Woolf. Both are part of the expert panel that chose the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling Publisher: BloomsburyPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Publisher: PenguinOrlando by Virginia Woolf Publisher: VintageFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

Author Nick Hornby and Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Viv Albertine, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Tobias Wolf. ‘Throw Away, Unopened’ by Viv Albertine. Publisher: Faber‘White Nights’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher: Penguin‘Old School’ by Tobias Wolff Publisher: BloomsburyFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2020.

Comedian Russell Kane and novelist Sarah Perry join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Iris Murdoch, Heinrich Boll and Shirley Jackson.The Train Was On Time by Heinrich Boll, translated by Leila Vennewitz Publisher PenguinUnder the Net by Iris Murdoch Publisher VintageLife Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson, her slightly fictionalised memoir. Publisher PenguinFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2019.