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James Naughtie and an audience of readers discuss Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, which began as a newspaper column and became a best-selling series of novels.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the author Armistead Maupin. Regarded as one of the 'great social satirists of his era', he made his name with his Tales of the City novels, chronicling the shifting cultural landscape of San Francisco throughout the 1970s and 80s.

Harriett Gilbert's choice is the first in the celebrated Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin.

The skyscrapers that shattered the myth of San Francisco as a special city.

Sue MacGregor brings together the men and women who were instrumental in the early years of the gay rights campaign group, Stonewall.

Uncovering the politics of the disco movement, beginning in the lofts of New York and culminating in a racially charged backlash and the mass burning of disco records in football stadiums across America.

Armistead Maupin reflects on 40 years of Gay Power since the Stonewall riots, and examines gay retirement options.

The author talks about his latest novel in his popular Tales of the City series.