Book Week NI

Midwife Rachel Byrne talks to Lynette, and Michael Portillo features on Evening Extra.

Steven Rainey explores the link between classic horror movies and classic horror literature; Marie-Louise Muir has an interview from the archives with author Joan Lingard.

Author Jan Carson and naturalist and writer Dara McAnulty pay tribute to Agatha Christie; publisher Lennie Goodings talks about the importance of women publishing for women.

Fr Martin Magill reveals whether he fulfilled his Book Week challenge; young book worms speak to Vinny; student Aimee Clint talks to Tara and Declan about her books on autism

A bookish pharmacist dispenses some good reads; Eoin Colfer talks about the Fowl twins, and Dr Michael Taylor discusses his new book on Britain's role in the abolition of slavery.

Children's Commissioner Koulla Yiasouma talks about her favourite book as a child; author Emma Hetherington talks to Connor Phillips; Lynette Fay chats to Essential Reader Paul.

We hear from some young readers; Essential Reader Cathy Shannon; crime writers Brian McGilloway and Claire Allan; the biography of rock band Therapy?

Children's authors Máire Zepf, Katherine Rundell and Liz Weir talk about the special joy of reading in childhood. We hear from frontline health worker, and bookworm, Leoni Gracey.

Writers Marian Keyes and Ann Cleeves talk to BBC Radio Ulster at the start of Book Week 2020. As well as Jennifer Foreman - a frontline health worker with a passion for books.

BBC Northern Ireland’s well-known radio voices introduce the Book Week NI podcast, where you can hear interviews, debates and discussion about poetry prose and plays.