Bookclub Podcast
Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
Episodes to download
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Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture
Sun 4 Dec 2011
Sebastian Barry talks about his Costa prize-winning novel The Secret Scripture.
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Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory
Sun 6 Nov 2011
Iain Banks talks about his first novel The Wasp Factory.
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Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Sun 2 Oct 2011
Arundhati Roy talks about her Booker prize winning novel The God of Small Things.
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Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Sun 4 Sep 2011
Mohsin Hamid talks to James Naughtie about The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice
Sun 7 Aug 2011
Donna Leon talks to James Naughtie about her first crime novel Death At La Fenice.
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William Fiennes - The Music Room
Sun 3 Jul 2011
William Fiennes talks to James Naughtie and readers about his memoir The Music Room.
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Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
Sun 5 Jun 2011
Nicole Krauss talks to James Naughtie and readers about her novel The History of Love.
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Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me
Sun 1 May 2011
Andrew O'Hagan meets James Naughtie and readers to discuss his novel Be Near Me.
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Jennifer Johnston
Sun 3 Apr 2011
James Naughtie talks to Jennifer Johnston about her novel The Gingerbread Woman.
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Benjamin Zephaniah
Sun 6 Mar 2011
James Naughtie talks to Benjamin Zephaniah about his novel for young adults Refugee Boy.
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Tim Butcher
Sun 6 Feb 2011
James Naughtie talks to Tim Butcher about his bestselling book Blood River.
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Howard Jacobson
Sun 2 Jan 2011
James Naughtie talks to Howard Jacobson about his comic novel The Mighty Walzer.
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Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army
Sun 5 Dec 2010
James Naughtie talks to Sarah Hall about her novel The Carhullan Army.
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Claire Tomalin (on Thomas Hardy)
Sun 7 Nov 2010
James Naughtie talks to Claire Tomalin about her biography of Thomas Hardy.
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Roddy Doyle
Sun 3 Oct 2010
Irish writer Roddy Doyle joins James Naughtie to discuss his novel Paddy Clarke HA HA HA.
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Henning Mankell
Sun 4 Jul 2010
James Naughtie talks to Henning Mankell about Sidetracked, a Kurt Wallander novel.
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Lynne Reid Banks
Sun 6 Jun 2010
James Naughtie talks to Lynne Reid Banks about her novel The L-Shaped Room.
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Orhan Pamuk
Sun 2 May 2010
James Naughtie talks to Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk about his novel My Name is Red.
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Jeanette Winterson
Sun 4 Apr 2010
James Naughtie talks to Jeanette Winterson about Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
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Douglas Coupland
Sun 7 Mar 2010
James Naughtie and readers talk to Douglas Coupland about his 1991 cult novel Generation X
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Clive James
Sun 7 Feb 2010
James Naughtie and readers talk to Clive James about the first volume of his autobiography
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Alexander McCall Smith
Sun 3 Jan 2010
James Naughtie talks to Alexander McCall Smith about his novel 44 Scotland Street.
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John Irving
Sun 6 Dec 2009
James Naughtie and readers talk to John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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Linda Grant
Sun 1 Nov 2009
James Naughtie talks to Linda Grant about her novel, When I Lived in Modern Times.
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Gillian Slovo
Sun 4 Oct 2009
James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust.
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Robert Macfarlane
Sun 6 Sep 2009
James Naughtie talks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild Places.
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CJ Sansom
Sun 2 Aug 2009
James Naughtie and readers talk to bestselling writer CJ Sansom about Dissolution.
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Bernard MacLaverty
Sun 5 Jul 2009
James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty.
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