Harriett Gilbert and her guests - comedian, Adam Hills and psychologist, Steven Pinker - discuss their favourite books by Albert Camus, Richard Bach and Jonathan Livingston.Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach
Publisher: Harper Collins (Harper NonFiction)The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
Publisher: Longman now PearsonThe Outsider by Albert Camus
Publisher: Penguin Modern ClassicsFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.
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Folge vom 21.10.2014Adam Hills and Steven Pinker
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Folge vom 14.10.2014Sheila Hancock and Cosmo LandesmanHarriett 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.
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Folge vom 07.10.2014Jeremy Paxman and Mary BeardHarriett 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.
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Folge vom 29.07.2014Ade Adepitan and Dominic HollandParalympian 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.