A Good Read Folgen

Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights organisation Liberty, and Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane, talk about their favourite reads with Harriett Gilbert. Books under discussion are Evelyn Waugh's satire on the Anglo-American relationship staged in and around an LA funeral business, The Loved One, Rachel Holmes' biography of Eleanor Marx, and the children's classic, Charlotte's Web. Conversation ranges from our attitudes to death, to strong women who make bad relationship choices, to what makes great children's literature. Producer Sally Heaven.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - actors, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Steve Oram - discuss favourite books by Annie Proulx, John Steinbeck and Martin Amis. Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories by Annie Proulx Publisher: Harper PerennialsOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Publisher: PenguinExperience by Martin Amis Publisher: VintageFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2014.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - comedian Al Murray, aka The Pub Landlord, and Egyptian political economist, Tarek Osman - discuss their favourite books by Naguib Mahfouz, Philip Roth and Joseph Heller.Children of The Alley by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher: Doubleday USCatch-22 by Joseph Heller Publisher: VintageEveryman by Philip Roth Publisher: Vintage First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.