A Good Read Folgen

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - astronomer and Sky at Night presenter, Chris Lintott and Chief Music Critic for The Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick - discuss favourite books by Anne Tyler, Olaf Stapledon and Marie Darrieussecq.A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler Publisher: VintageWhite by Marie Darrieussecq Publisher: FaberFirst Men by Olaf Stapledon Publisher: Gollancz Producer: Toby FieldFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.

Harriett Gilbert invites Deborah Meaden from Dragons' Den, and folk-singer and songwriter Eliza Carthy to pick their favourite books.Eliza chooses Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - a story of a young man who goes to the Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his Grandfather from the Nazis, aided by a blind old man, a randy dog and a very, very bad translator.Deborah's choice is the historical detective story The Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, the tale of a young woman, Sarah Blundy, accused of murder set against the backdrop of religious, political and intellectual ferment that surrounded England in the 1600s.Harriett's choice is the idiosyncratic The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo. It's a book written entirely in verse and set in Roman Britain, which tells the story of Zuleika, the feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants whose head is turned by the arriving Emperor, Septimus Severus.Producer: Toby FieldFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

Harriett Gilbert's guests this week are the art critic Brian Sewell and the poet Wendy Cope.Books chosen: "From the City, From the Plough," by Alexander Baron "The Moving Toyshop," by Edmund Crispin "Evening in the Palace of Reason," by James Gaines Producer Christine Hall First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.