Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
Radio 4,·362 episodes
Sir Salman Rushdie talks to James Naughtie about his Booker-winner Midnight's Children.
02 Feb 2003,·30 mins
James Naughtie hosts a discussion with Salman Rushdie about his novel Midnight's Children.
02 Feb 2003,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to the much-loved author Alan Bennett about his memoir Writing Home.
05 Jan 2003,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to bestselling author Jilly Cooper about her racy novel Polo.
01 Dec 2002,·28 mins
Jacqueline Wilson talks about her award-winning book the Illustrated Mum.
03 Nov 2002,·28 mins
Barbara Vine talks about her haunting novel A Dark Adapted Eye.
06 Oct 2002,·28 mins
Travel writer William Dalrymple talks about his book From the Holy Mountain.
01 Sep 2002,·28 mins
Maya Angelou talks about volume one of her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
04 Aug 2002,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to David Grossman about his book See Under Love.
07 Jul 2002,·28 mins
James Naughtie and a studio audience meet Michael Frayn to talk about Headlong.
02 Jun 2002,·28 mins
Mario Vargas Llosa talks about his novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
05 May 2002,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his novel detailing a butler's life.
07 Apr 2002,·30 mins
A group of readers, James Naughtie and Kazuo Ishiguro discuss The Remains of The Day.
07 Apr 2002,·28 mins
James Naughtie meets Rose Tremain to discuss her novel Music and Silence.
03 Mar 2002,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to J G Ballard about his classic war novel Empire of the Sun.
03 Feb 2002,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to Ian Rankin about his books: Knots and Crosses and The Falls.
10 Jan 2002,·28 mins
James Naughtie and a studio audience meet novelist Nick Hornby to discuss About A Boy.
02 Dec 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie meets novelist Helen Dunmore to discuss her novel Talking to the Dead.
04 Nov 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie looks at the work of Wendy Cope, one of Britain's most popular poets.
07 Oct 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to the Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing about The Grass is Singing.
02 Sep 2001,·28 mins
Martin Amis discusses his acclaimed novel London Fields with James Naughtie.
09 Aug 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to Chinese-American writer Amy Tan about The Kitchen God's Wife.
01 Jul 2001,·28 mins
Annie Proulx talks about her novel of life in far-flung Newfoundland, The Shipping News.
03 Jun 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie and author James Ellroy discuss Ellroy's thriller noir, The Black Dahlia.
06 May 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to Margaret Drabble about her novel The Witch of Exmoor.
01 Apr 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to mountaineer Joe Simpson about his book Touching the Void.
04 Mar 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie talks to Penelope Lively about her Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger.
04 Feb 2001,·28 mins
Tony Parsons discusses his book Man and Boy, with the reading circle of HMP Coldingley.
07 Jan 2001,·28 mins
James Naughtie meets Booker-prize winning novelist Graham Swift to talk about Waterland.
03 Dec 2000,·28 mins
James Naughtie discusses The Miller's Tale from The Canterbury Tales with Dr Ruth Evans.
22 Oct 2000,·28 mins
