Episodes
4. Episode 4
November 4, 2010
Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl; Val McDermid; and Michael Frayn
5. Episode 5
November 11, 2010
Iain M Banks on his latest sci-fi novel Surface Detail, Michelle Paver on why she finds the arctic such a scary place in her new novel Dark Matter, and Bernard Cornwell on how necessity drove him to become a novelist and his latest book The Fort.
6. Episode 6
November 18, 2010
Helen of Troy in jeans Bettany Hughes, travel writer Tim Butcher, and satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. Plus, Alison Weir on The Write Place and Ken Follett's bedside reads.
7. Episode 7
November 25, 2010
India Knight talks about Comfort & Joy, Nicholas Evans on The Brave, and Amanda Foreman on A World on Fire
8. Episode 8
December 2, 2010
Conn Iggulden, Michael Holroyd, and Dawn French on their latest books and what every 21 year old should be reading. Plus a look inside Philip Kerr's study, Peter Carey's favourite bookshop, and Tara Palmer Tomkinson's bedside reads.
9. Episode 9
December 9, 2010
Sir Michael Parkinson talks about lasting fame as Emu's interviewer and being grumpy, Edmund de Waal shows off his family heirlooms, and PD James on turning real life detective. Plus the first of our Xmas book recommendations.
11. Episode 11
January 20, 2011
Biographer Sarah Bakewell, spin doctor and diarist Alistair Campbell, and cult film director John Waters
13. Episode 13
February 3, 2011
Guest authors Matthew Parris, Leila Aboulela, and writer/director Rowan Joffé. Also Armistead Maupin on his Bedside Reads, Jonathan Safran Foer reads us his Fine Line, Colin Dexter gives his Book Club Recommendation, and Sister Wendy reveals her writing habits.
14. Episode 14
February 10, 2011
Linda Grant, Simon Sebag Montefiore, and Jane Shilling. Plus Belle de Jour's bedside reads, Mark Mills' Book Club, and Steve Bell's study.
15. Episode 15
February 17, 2011
Wendy Holden, Anthony Quinn, and Edna O'Brien as well as a trip to Paris to see Victor Hugo's study, as well as Rebecca Hunt's bedside reads and Philip Kerr's Book Club selection.
16. Episode 16
February 24, 2011
Allison Pearson, Helen Dunmore, and Francesca Beauman. Plus: Hugh Bonneville on his book club choice, Kate Mosse on The Write Place, and Alexander McCall Smith reveals his bedside reads.
17. Episode 17
March 3, 2011
Bath Literature Festival (1/2): Howard Jacobson, Colin Thubron, and Kim Edwards
18. Episode 18
March 10, 2011
Bath Literature Festival (2/2): Kazuo Ishiguro, David Starkey, and Aminatta Forna
20. Episode 20
March 24, 2011
Ways With Words Festival: Salley Vickers, Manju Kapur, and Chris Mullin
21. Episode 21
March 31, 2011
Noughts and Crosses writer Malorie Blackman, Costa-nominated author Louise Doughty, and controversial historian Niall Ferguson.
23. Episode 23
April 14, 2011
Biographer Hugo Vickers tells all about Wallis Simpson, bestselling rom-com author Jenny Colgan serves up a feast, and Jennifer Egan tells us about her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad which she says is Proust meets The Sopranos.
27. Episode 27
May 12, 2011
Bestseller Wilbur Smith, Sky News' presenter turned novelist Kay Burley, and John Julius Norwich gives us an audience when he discusses his new book The Popes.
28. Episode 28
May 19, 2011
Jodi Picoult discusses her latest, Sing You Home. Caradoc King, literary agent turned writer, discusses his powerful memoir Problem Child. Irish novelist Paul Murray talks about his tragi-comic novel set in a Dublin boarding school, Skippy Dies.
30. Episode 30
May 28, 2011
The Book Show at Hay (1/4): Paul Theroux, Jeffery Deaver, and Cerys Matthews - who also entertains us with a song from her new album.
31. Episode 31
May 29, 2011
The Book Show at Hay (2/4): Professor Brian Cox, Henning Mankell, and Mark Logue
32. Episode 32
May 30, 2011
The Book Show at Hay (3/4): David Baddiel, Elif Shafak, and David Bailey
33. Episode 33
May 31, 2011
The Book Show at Hay (4/4): Victor Gregg, Adam Nicolson, and Marcus Sedgwick
34. Episode 34
June 2, 2011
Terry Jones on his Animal Tales and new film, author Rosamund Lupton with her latest, and Deborah Moggach pays tribute to Beryl Bainbridge's career
