Hanif Kureishi joins a World Service audience to discuss his book 'The Buddha of Suburbia'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
World Book Club - V S Naipaul – A House for Mr Biswas
Nobel Prize winner V. S Naipaul discussess his book 'A House for Mr Biswas' with an audience of World Service listeners. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. (Photo: VS Naipaul, Credit: Press Association)
World Book Club - Ben Okri
Nigerian born writer Ben Okri discusses his novel The Famished Road. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
World Book Club - Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy talks to the programme about winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
(First broadcast December 2002)
(Photo: Arundhati Roy) (Credit: HOCINE ZAOURAR/AFP/Getty Images)
World Book Club - Martin Amis – Money: A Suicide Note
Martin Amis joins an audience of World Service listeners to answer questions about his novel Money. Broadcast in October 2002.
(Photo: Martin Amis, 2006. Credit: BBC)
World Book Club - Stephen King
What makes Stephen King, not only the Master of Horror, but more than that?
(Image: Stephen King speaking in 2009. Credit: Mike Segar/Reuters)
World Book Club - Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
In the First ever Meridian Writing World Book Club, Harriett Gilbert talks to American writer Garrison Keillor on his book Lake Wobegon Days.
World Book Club - David Hare
Interview with the playwright and director, David Hare.
World Book Club - Maya Angelou
Interview with American poet, memoirist, actress, Maya Angelou. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
World Book Club - Chenjerai Hove – Ancestors
Zimbabwean novelist,poet and playright Chenjerai Hove talks to Harriett Gilbert about his novel 'Ancestors'. This programme with Chenjerai Hove, who died in 2015, was first broadcast in February 2002.