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Books and Authors

This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. Open Book talks to authors about their work. In A G

Episodes

Total: 925

Columnist Melanie Reid adores This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway, a tragicomic account of her t

Summer Reading and Benjamin Wood

Sophie Hannah and Viv Groskop join Harriett Gilbert to talk about books they love.Sophie, an Agatha

Johny Pitts returns to his home city to explore Sheffield's literary landscapes

The broadcaster Petroc Trelawny, host of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, and the crime writer Stuart Mac

A Good Read

2022/6/29

Dr Alex George and Ella Al Shamahi choose books they love

Revisiting the 1990s

2022/6/26

Remember the 1990s? A decade in which literary authors briefly rivalled rock stars - Martin Amis net

The comedian and the writer discuss favourite books

Johny Pitts discusses time with three writers who have explored it in very different ways

The novelist and the podcaster propose favourite books for discussion

Johny Pitts talks to author of Either/Or, sequel to the 2017 bestseller The Idiot

A novel about compassion set against the backdrop of the Aberfan disaster is comedian and actor Omid

Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel, The War for Gloria.

Neurodiversity

2022/5/15

Johny Pitts discusses neurodiversity in literature with Elle McNicoll, Helen Hoang and Sunyi Dean. T

Elizabeth Day talks to David Whitehouse about his new creative nonfiction

Julian Barnes; How Words Get Good; Bangkok Postcard

Forbidden love with Douglas Stuart; Oxford’s influence on interwar writers

Belfast in the Blitz

2022/4/11

Belfast in the Blitz

The two actors choose books they love