A Good Read Folgen

Harriett Gilbert talks to Alexander Waugh and Xanthe Clay about their favourite books.Letters Between a Father and Son by VS Naipaul Publisher: PicadorJane Grigson's Vegetable Book by Jane Grigson Publisher: PenguinA Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Publisher: PenguinProducer Beth O'DeaFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.

Harriett Gilbert talks to polymath Raymond Tallis and political journalist Allegra Stratton about their favourite books. Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel Publisher: Fourth EstateThe Walk by Robert Walser Publisher: Serpent's TailWhat I Loved by Siri Hustvedt Publisher: SceptreProducer Beth O'DeaFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.

Satirical writer John O'Farrell and historian Juliet Barker talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books - all of which use an unusual blend of fact and fiction. They evoke the lives of the Brontes, the worst civilian disaster of World War II and the British mandate in Palestine. The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan Publisher: Headline ReviewThe Report by Jessica Francis Kane Publihser: Portobello BooksPanther in the Basement by Amos Oz Publisher: VintageProducer Beth O'DeaFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.