Artists at Work

By BBC World ServiceSociety & Culture

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Artists at Work episodes

January 29, 2004 Amy Tan
Amy Tan joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss her novel The Joy Luck Club.
27 min
November 26, 2003 Isabelle Allende - The House of Spirits
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss her novel 'The House of the Spirits'.
First broadcast in November 2003.
(Photo credit: Lori Barra.)
27 min
October 23, 2003 Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth joins an audience of World Service listners to discuss his novel 'The Day of the Jackal'. Introduced by Harriett Gilbert. First broadcast in October 2003.
(Photo: Frederick Forsyth outside his home in Ireland, 1978)
(Credit: Evening Standard/Getty Images)
27 min
September 25, 2003 Peter Carey
Peter Carey joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss his novel 'Oscar and Lucinda'. Introduced by Harriett Gilbert.
27 min
August 28, 2003 Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone
Popular British crime writer Ruth Rendell talked to the programme about her work, including that written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
(Photo: Ruth Rendell)
(Credit:Seth Wenig/Reuters)
27 min
July 31, 2003 Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes joins a World Service audience to discuss his novel 'Flaubert's Parrot'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
27 min
June 14, 2003 Jung Chang
Prize winning Chinese writer Jung Chang joins a World Service audience to discuss her novel 'Wild Swans'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
27 min
May 29, 2003 Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
Author Terry Pratchett talking about The Colour Of Magic in 2003, one of his Discworld series. Terry died in March 2015. The World Book Club was presented by Harriett Gilbert.
Photo: Terry Pratchett
Credit: PA
36 min
April 08, 2003 Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The novel explores themes of women in subjugation, and the various means by which they gain agency. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
27 min
February 11, 2003 Doris Lessing
The British author Doris Lessing died on 17 November at the age of 94. As a tribute the BBC World Service revisits Doris Lessing’s discussion with Harriett Gilbert from a 2003 edition of World Book Club, when she talked about her debut novel The Grass is Singing, which was published in 1950.
In an introduction to the original interview, Harriett remembers her encounters with Doris Lessing with affection and reminds us of the fact that she became the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 when she won the award for her life’s work.
24 min