A Good Read

Editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson, Adam Mars-Jones and Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books by Vilhelm Moberg, Hugo Williams and Elmore Leonard.

I Knew The Bride by Hugo Williams

The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg

Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard

Producer: Beth O'Dea

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2015.

Author Philip Pullman, journalist Caroline Criado-Perez and Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books by Graham Greene, Tove Jansson and Alice Munro.

Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir by Tove Jansson

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro

The Quiet American by Graham Greene.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Adam Sisman about his biography of John Le Carre

Mariella Frostrup talks to Jonathan Lee about his new novel High Dive

Actor David Morrissey and writer Julia Blackburn join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by John O'Hara, JD Salinger and Alexandra Fuller.

For Esme with Love and Squalor by JD Salinger

Don't Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Producer Mary Ward-Lowery.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Andrew Hurley about The Loney

Green MP Caroline Lucas and columnist Rod Liddle join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Barbara Kingsolver, David Peace and Alison Bechdel.

Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver

Red or Dead by David Peace

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

First broadcast in October 2015.

Open Book - Mariella Frostrup talks to Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk

Actress Miriam Margolyes, writer Mark Haddon and Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books by Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf and Truman Capote.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2015.

Mariella Frostrup talks to literary agent turned author Bill Clegg