Jodi Picoult
James Naughtie and an audience talk to author Jodi Picoult. Her novel My Sister's Keeper is about a young girl who sues her parents for the right to make her own decisions.
May 06, 2007•28 min
Bookclub
Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
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Jonathan Coe
James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to comic fiction author Jonathan Coe, who discusses his novel What A Carve Up!
Apr 01, 2007•28 min
Alison Weir
Eleanor of Aquitaine was the most powerful and enigmatic woman of her age. Historian Alison Weir discusses her biography of Eleanor with James Naughtie and a group of readers.
Mar 04, 2007•27 min
Val McDermid
Val McDermid joins readers to discuss The Mermaids Singing, the story of a serial killer who stalks the gay subculture of a northern town. James Naughtie presents.
Feb 04, 2007•28 min
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
The author Jonathan Franzen discusses his novel The Corrections with James Naughtie and a group of readers at the British Library in London.
Jan 07, 2007•28 min
Salley Vickers
James Naughtie discusses Miss Garnet's Angel with its author Salley Vickers. The novel tells the tale of a retired teacher discovering love and art in Venice.
Dec 03, 2006•28 min
Lewis Wolpert
Under discussion is the scientist Lewis Wolpert's account of his experience of depression in Malignant Sadness. Wolpert joins readers and James Naughtie to discuss his approach to this debilitating disease.
Nov 05, 2006•27 min
Jane Gardam
James Naughtie talks to author Jane Gardam about her book Old Filth.
Oct 01, 2006•28 min
Matthew Kneale
James Naughtie is joined by author Matthew Kneale, whose book English Passengers won Whitbread Book of the Year in 2000. They discuss this rampant and ambitious piece of writing that deals with big ideas like radical theory, genocide and Darwinism, yet is hilarious too.
Sep 03, 2006•28 min
Elmore Leonard
In the 100th edition of Bookclub, James Naughtie is joined by American crime writer Elmore Leonard to discuss his book Rum Punch. The novel is set in Florida and features the character Jackie Burke, who became Jackie Brown in the film of the same name by Quentin Tarantino.
Aug 06, 2006•27 min
John Berendt
James Naughtie is joined by John Berendt to talk about his book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The story tells of what John Berendt experienced in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1990s when the town was turned upside-down by a strange murder.
Jul 02, 2006•27 min
Lindsey Davis
James Naughtie is joined by Lindsey Davis to discuss her thriller Time to Depart, about investigator Marcus Didius Falco, a kind of 1950s gumshoe detective, operating in the teeming bustle of Rome.
Jun 04, 2006•28 min
Ali Smith
James Naughtie is joined in Brighton by novelist Ali Smith to talk about her book Hotel World.
May 07, 2006•28 min
Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss Noughts and Crosses, her novel set in an alternative reality in which people are either a Cross, with money, prospects and position, or a Nought, with very little.
Apr 02, 2006•28 min
Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver joins James Naughtie and a studio audience to discuss her book We Need to Talk About Kevin, a novel about an unloved son who grows up to commit a horrifying crime.
Mar 05, 2006•28 min
P J O'Rourke
James Naughtie is joined by American satirist P J O'Rourke to discuss Holidays in Hell, his account of his experiences as foreign correspondent for Rolling Stone Magazine in the late 1980s.
Feb 05, 2006•27 min
George Macdonald Fraser
James Naughtie is joined by George Macdonald Fraser to talk about his Flashman books which use Thomas Hughes' bully character from Tom Brown's Schooldays.
Jan 01, 2006•28 min
Joyce Carol Oates
American writer Joyce Carol Oates joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss We Were the Mulvaneys, the story of the break-up of a family after the random disaster of a rape.
Dec 04, 2005•28 min
Antonia Fraser
James Naughtie is joined by historian Antonia Fraser to discuss her book The Gunpowder Plot.
Nov 06, 2005•28 min
Hanif Kureishi
Playwright, screenwriter, novelist and film-maker Hanif Kureishi discusses his semi-autobiographical book The Buddha of Suburbia with James Naughtie and readers.
Oct 02, 2005•27 min
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier was Radio 4's Classic Serial in August. The novel cast a spell over a whole generation of French readers in the twentieth century, with its romanticism, its portrayal of adolescent friendship and its evocation of pastoral France. But does it still speak to readers today? Novelist and poet Michele Roberts is our Bookclub guide to the novel with readers in Paris including teachers and students. Recorded at the studios of Radio France.
Sep 04, 2005•28 min
Michael Dibdin
James Naughtie talks to crime writer Michael Dibdin in front of a group of readers, about his novel Blood Rain, the ninth in his Aurelio Zen series.
Aug 07, 2005•28 min
Oliver Sacks
James Naughtie talks to Dr Oliver Sacks about The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, a collection of case studies into neurological disorders, all written from the point of view of the Dr.
Jul 03, 2005•27 min
Sue Townsend
James Naughtie is joined by Sue Townsend to discuss the life of her best loved comic creation Adrian Mole.
Jun 05, 2005•28 min
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy, who won last year's Orange Prize and Whitbread Prize for her novel Small Island joins readers to discuss the book.
May 01, 2005•28 min
Richard Ford
James Naughtie is joined by American writer Richard Ford to discuss his novel, Independence Day.
Apr 03, 2005•28 min
Stephen Fry
The multi-talented Stephen Fry discusses and reads from his acclaimed novel The Hippopotamus, about a failed poet turned whiskey-sodden critic.
Mar 06, 2005•27 min
Bill Bryson
James Naughtie talks to author Bill Bryson about his book A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Feb 06, 2005•28 min
Zadie Smith
James Naughtie talks to Zadie Smith about the impact of her debut novel White Teeth.
Jan 02, 2005•28 min
Carol Ann Duffy
James Naughtie's guest is Carol Ann Duffy, one of the most widely read British poets, talking about her inventive and funny collection, The World's Wife.
Dec 05, 2004•27 min
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