A Good Read Folgen

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actress and author, Dame Sheila Hancock and journalist, Cosmo Landesman - discuss their favourite books by Toby Young, John Williams and Sylvia Townsend Warner.Stoner by John Williams Publisher: VintageHow To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young Publisher: AbacusLolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner Publisher: ViragoFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - broadcaster, Jeremy Paxman and classicist, Dame Mary Beard - discuss their favourite books by Natalie Zemon Davis, Ben Fountain and Graham Greene. Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Publisher: CanongateTravels with my Aunt by Graham Greene Publisher: VintageThe Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher: Harvard University PressFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.

Paralympian Ade Adepitan and comedian Dominic Holland talk books with Harriett Gilbert. Books under discussion are: Sue Townsend's delicious tale of teenage angst, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's 'non-fiction novel' about the murders of four family members in a Kansas farmhouse in 1959 and Roddy Doyle's The Snapper, a comic portrayal of an unplanned pregnancy. Harriett and her two guests talk about the both the comedy and the poignancy to be found in novels about a working class Dublin family and a pompous teenager in 1980s Ashby de-la-Zouch. They debate the mind and motives of a psychopath and Truman Capote's views on the death penalty. Producer Sally Heaven.