Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
Radio 4,·362 episodes
James Naughtie talks to Henning Mankell about Sidetracked, a Kurt Wallander novel.
04 Jul 2010,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to Lynne Reid Banks about her novel The L-Shaped Room.
06 Jun 2010,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk about his novel My Name is Red.
02 May 2010,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to Jeanette Winterson about Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
04 Apr 2010,·30 mins
James Naughtie and readers talk to Douglas Coupland about his 1991 cult novel Generation X
07 Mar 2010,·30 mins
James Naughtie and readers talk to Clive James about the first volume of his autobiography
07 Feb 2010,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to Alexander McCall Smith about his novel 44 Scotland Street.
03 Jan 2010,·30 mins
James Naughtie and readers talk to John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
06 Dec 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to Linda Grant about her novel, When I Lived in Modern Times.
01 Nov 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust.
04 Oct 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild Places.
06 Sep 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie and readers talk to bestselling writer CJ Sansom about Dissolution.
02 Aug 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty.
05 Jul 2009,·30 mins
Kate Grenville talks to James Naughtie about her novel The Secret River.
07 Jun 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie and readers meet Chinese author Xiaolu Guo.
03 May 2009,·30 mins
Andrew Motion talks to James Naughtie about his 10 years as Poet Laureate.
05 Apr 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to the author and part-time stand-up comedian AL Kennedy.
01 Mar 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to the novelist Bernard Cornwell.
01 Feb 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to the psychologist Oliver James about 'affluenza'.
04 Jan 2009,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.
07 Dec 2008,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to Fay Weldon about her novel The Cloning of Joanna May.
02 Nov 2008,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to Michael Morpurgo about his novel Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea.
05 Oct 2008,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to Gore Vidal, one of the great American men of letters.
07 Sep 2008,·30 mins
Irish writer Colm Toibin joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his novel The Master.
03 Aug 2008,·30 mins
With James Naughtie. Norwegian author Asne Seierstad discusses The Bookseller of Kabul.
06 Jul 2008,·30 mins
Jan Morris joins James Naughtie and readers to talk about her portrait of Venice.
01 Jun 2008,·30 mins
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins James Naughtie to talk about her novel Half of a Yellow Sun
04 May 2008,·30 mins
Simon Armitage discusses his translation of the epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
06 Apr 2008,·30 mins
James Naughtie talks to William Hague about his biography of William Pitt the Younger.
02 Mar 2008,·30 mins
James Naughtie and an audience discuss Sarah Dunant's erotic thriller The Birth of Venus.
03 Feb 2008,·30 mins
