Bookclub

BBC Radio 4
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Sep 2, 2001 • 28min

Doris Lessing

A group of readers join James Naughtie to talk to the Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing about her first novel The Grass is Singing.
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Aug 9, 2001 • 28min

Martin Amis

Martin Amis is this month's guest on Bookclub to discuss his acclaimed novel London Fields with a small group of readers and presenter James Naughtie.
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Jul 1, 2001 • 28min

Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife

James Naughtie and a studio audience talks to Chinese-American writer Amy Tan about her acclaimed novel The Kitchen God's Wife.
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Jun 3, 2001 • 27min

Annie Proulx - The Shipping News

James Naughtie meets with Annie Proulx and a group of readers to discuss her acclaimed novel of life, love and death in far-flung Newfoundland, The Shipping News.
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May 6, 2001 • 28min

James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia

James Naughtie and acclaimed American crime author James Ellroy are guests of the Royal Navy on HMS Illustrious where they and the crew discuss Ellroy's classic thriller noir, The Black Dahlia.
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Apr 1, 2001 • 28min

Margaret Drabble

James Naughtie meets Margaret Drabble and a group of readers to talk about her searing portrait of English middle class life, The Witch of Exmoor.
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Mar 4, 2001 • 28min

Joe Simpson

James Naughtie meets mountaineer Joe Simpson to talk about his nail-biting, prize-winning book Touching the Void.
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Feb 4, 2001 • 28min

Penelope Lively

James Naughtie meets Penelope Lively and talks to her about her Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger in the company of the reading circle at Nightingale residential Home for Older People.
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Jan 7, 2001 • 28min

Tony Parsons

In a special edition of the programme, James Naughtie visits HMP Coldingley with writer Tony Parsons to discuss his hugely successful book Man and Boy with the prisoners' reading circle.
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Dec 3, 2000 • 28min

Graham Swift

James Naughtie and an audience meet Booker-prize winning novelist Graham Swift to talk about Waterland, his much acclaimed novel of love, loss and madness in the Fens.

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