Bookclub
Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best known novels
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Bill Bryson meets readers to discuss his book A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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James Naughtie talks to the author and part-time stand-up comedian AL Kennedy.
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James Naughtie talks to Alexander McCall Smith about his novel 44 Scotland Street.
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James Naughtie and readers meet Alice Sebold to discuss her debut novel The Lovely Bones.
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Historian Alison Weir discusses her biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine with James Naughtie.
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James Naughtie talks to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.
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Andrew Motion talks to James Naughtie about his 10 years as Poet Laureate.
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James Naughtie and an audience of readers discuss Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.
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With James Naughtie. Norwegian author Asne Seierstad discusses The Bookseller of Kabul.
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James Naughtie and an audience discuss Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Poisonwood Bible.
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James Naughtie talks to the novelist Bernard Cornwell.
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James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins James Naughtie to talk about her novel Half of a Yellow Sun
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James Naughtie and readers talk to bestselling writer CJ Sansom about Dissolution.
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James Naughtie talks to Claire Tomalin about her biography of Thomas Hardy.
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James Naughtie and readers talk to Clive James about the first volume of his autobiography
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James Naughtie talks to Colin Dexter about The Remorseful Day, Inspector Morse's last case
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Irish writer Colm Toibin joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his novel The Master.
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From the Hay Festival, James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to David Mitchell.
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James Naughtie and readers talk to Douglas Coupland about his 1991 cult novel Generation X
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James Naughtie talks to Fay Weldon about her novel The Cloning of Joanna May.
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James Naughtie is joined by Germaine Greer to discuss her book The Female Eunuch.
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James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust.
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James Naughtie talks to Gore Vidal, one of the great American men of letters.
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James Naughtie talks to Henning Mankell about Sidetracked, a Kurt Wallander novel.
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James Naughtie talks to Howard Jacobson about his comic novel The Mighty Walzer.
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James Naughtie talks to James Robertson about his historical novel Joseph Knight.
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Jan Morris joins James Naughtie and readers to talk about her portrait of Venice.
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James Naughtie talks to Jeanette Winterson about Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
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James Naughtie and an audience talk to Jodi Picoult about her novel My Sister's Keeper.
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James Naughtie and readers talk to John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to comic fiction author Jonathan Coe.
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Kate Grenville talks to James Naughtie about her novel The Secret River.
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James Naughtie talks to Linda Grant about her novel, When I Lived in Modern Times.
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James Naughtie talks to Lynne Reid Banks about her novel The L-Shaped Room.
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James Naughtie talks to Michael Morpurgo about his novel Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea.
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James Naughtie talks to the psychologist Oliver James about 'affluenza'.
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James Naughtie talks to Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk about his novel My Name is Red.
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James Naughtie talks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild Places.
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Irish writer Roddy Doyle joins James Naughtie to discuss his novel Paddy Clarke HA HA HA.
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James Naughtie and an audience discuss Sarah Dunant's erotic thriller The Birth of Venus.
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James Naughtie talks to Sarah Hall about her novel The Carhullan Army.
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Simon Armitage discusses his translation of the epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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James Naughtie talks to Siri Hustvedt about her novel What I Loved.
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James Naughtie and readers meet the 1982 Booker Prize winner Thomas Keneally.
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Val McDermid joins readers to discuss The Mermaids Singing, the story of a serial killer.
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James Naughtie talks to William Hague about his biography of William Pitt the Younger.
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James Naughtie and readers meet Chinese author Xiaolu Guo.
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James Naughtie talks to Yann Martel about Life of Pi.