A Good Read

By BBC Radio 4Arts Books

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A Good Read episodes

July 12, 2015 Open Book - Sean Michaels; Rachel Johnson and Michelle Miller
Novelist Sean Michaels on Us Conductors, the story of the inventor of the theremin.
28 min
July 08, 2015 A Good Read 7 July 2015
Comedian Julian Clary and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis talk favourite books
29 min
June 30, 2015 A Good Read 30 June 2015
Jon Richardson and Emma Kennedy recommend favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
29 min
June 28, 2015 Open Book - Benjamin Markovits; Milan Kundera; Mario Vargas Llosa; Harper Lee
Mariella Frostrup talks to Benjamin Markovits; reading Milan Kundera and Harper Lee.
28 min
June 23, 2015 A Good Read 23 June 2015
Harriett Gilbert talks to Stephen K Amos and Anneka Rice about their favourite books.
28 min
June 21, 2015 Open Book - Sunjeev Sahota
Sunjeev Sahota on his new novel A Year of the Runaways
28 min
June 18, 2015 Miranda Sawyer and Tom Robinson
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - journalist, Miranda Sawyer and singer, Tom Robinson - discuss their favourite books by Joan Didion, Alan Hollinghurst and Ben Aaronovitch.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher: Gallants
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher: Vintage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2015.
29 min
June 16, 2015 Helen Baxendale & Helen Cross
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actress Helen Baxendale and writer Helen Cros - discuss favourite books by George Monbiot, Kirsten Thorup and Julia Blackburn. From 2015.
The God of Chance by Kirsten Thorup
Pub: Norvick Press
The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn
Pub: Vintage
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot
Pub: Penguin
Producer Mary Ward-Lowery
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
28 min
June 14, 2015 Laura Barnett on Open Book with Mariella Frostrup
Laura Barnett on her debut novel The Versions of Us
28 min
May 24, 2015 Ryan Gattis on his new novel All Involved
Ryan Gattis talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel All Involved, a fictional account of the 1992 Los Angeles riots told from the perspective of several different gang members involved in the violence.
28 min