World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Episodes to download
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Amy Tan
Thu 29 Jan 2004
Amy Tan joins an audience of listeners to discuss her novel The Joy Luck Club.
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Isabelle Allende - The House of Spirits
Wed 26 Nov 2003
Isabel Allende joins an audience to discuss her novel 'The House of the Spirits'.
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Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
Thu 23 Oct 2003
Frederick Forsyth joins an audience to discuss his novel 'The Day of the Jackal'.
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Peter Carey
Thu 25 Sep 2003
Peter Carey joins an audience of listeners to discuss his novel 'Oscar and Lucinda'.
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Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone
Thu 28 Aug 2003
Popular British crime writer Ruth Rendell talked to the programme about her work.
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Julian Barnes
Thu 31 Jul 2003
Julian Barnes joins a World Service audience to discuss his novel 'Flaubert's Parrot'.
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Jung Chang
Sat 14 Jun 2003
Chinese writer Jung Chang joins a World Service audience to discuss her novel Wild Swans.
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Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
Thu 29 May 2003
Author Terry Pratchett talks about his Discworld book The Colour Of Magic.
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Margaret Atwood
Tue 8 Apr 2003
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
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Hanif Kureishi
Mon 3 Feb 2003
Hanif Kureishi joins an audience to discuss his book 'The Buddha of Suburbia'.
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V S Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas
Sat 4 Jan 2003
Nobel Prize winner V. S Naipaul discussess his book 'A House for Mr Biswas'.
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Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Mon 2 Dec 2002
Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy talks about winning the Booker Prize in 1997
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Martin Amis - Money: A Suicide Note
Tue 8 Oct 2002
Martin Amis joins an audience of listeners to answer questions about his novel Money.
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Stephen King
Tue 27 Aug 2002
What makes Stephen King, not only the Master of Horror, but more than that?
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Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon Days
Wed 14 Aug 2002
Harriett Gilbert talks to American writer Garrison Keillor on his book Lake Wobegon Days.
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Chenjerai Hove - Ancestors
Tue 5 Feb 2002
Harriett Gilbert talks to the Zimbabwean novelist Chenjerai Hove about Ancestors
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Bahaa Taher
Tue 15 Jan 2002
Bahaa Taher is an Egyptian novelist who won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
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Iain Sinclair
Thu 10 Jan 2002
Interview with Iain Sinclair on his book, 'London Orbital'. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
