We're looking for three kids to join us on the judging panel for the first ever Children's Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation. If your child (or one you know) is between eight and 12 years old and loves reading, make sure to enter now! 🔗 thebookerprizes.com/children youtu.be/JlxCDEri9vM

From Joe Lycett to Penelope Lively - it’s all on A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 when clothing entrepreneur @patrickgrantism.bsky.social & anthropologist & broadcaster @maryannochota.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social to recommend #books they love. All eps @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#AGoodRead Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Bridget Jones's DiaryHelen Fielding @bbcmaryam.bsky.social Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise Katherine Rundell @dougrdnaylor.bsky.social Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson @harriettsg.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Children who burst into flames, a diary-writing singleton & why adults should read children’s books. All on A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 when @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by @bbcmaryam.bsky.social & @dougrdnaylor.bsky.social Producer Sally Heaven #books #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Another marvelous discussion! I also enjoyed award-winning #Clear by #CarysDavies (do find interviews where she describes its inspiration). Never a Hemingway fan but these discussions always bring out things you've missed! Thanks to @harriettsg.bsky.social and her fine guests. #BookSky

She-devils, giant marlin & the Highland Clearances - comedy writer Victoria Pile and philosopher Julian Baggini talk about favourite #books with @harriettsg.bsky.social A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 Producer Becky Ripley #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

From how to measure a cow to how to have a good death - all on A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 - when playwright & actor @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social & Professor of Neurology Guy Leschziner join @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Eliza Lomas #books #reading www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen, poetry of Seamus Heaney & a novel by Alan Garner are the choices on today’s A Good Read when writers Jung Chang & @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social to talk #books 3pm @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Agatha Christie. Flann O’Brien. Claudia Pineiro. Your regular helping of A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by writers @tomshakespeare.bsky.social & @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social to discuss much-loved #books Producer Sally Heaven www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Interesting, open-minded piece about reading habits and aspirations (despite off-putting headline and pic) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Fiction by #OctaviaEButler #Gogol & Lissa Evans - all on A Good Read, Mon 3pm @BBCRadio4 Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate art museums & galleries & Léa Ypi, professor of politics & philosophy at LSE swap books they love with @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer @elizalomas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Drama in Schools: an unfolding tragedy? Actor Christopher Eccleston investigates the decline in #drama education in schools in England. 4pm Tues 10 Feb @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Producer @robinmarkwell.bsky.social #education #schools www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy, chosen by comedian @robinince.bsky.social Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social Esther Waters by George Moore, chosen by writer @philiphensher.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Looking for reading inspiration in this #NationalYearOfReading2026 ? A Good Read is back 3pm @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds with eclectic suggestions. Today, writer @philiphensher.bsky.social & comedian @robinince.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social with favourite #books www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Witches, wilderness & wit. A trio of classics on A Good Read today. Poet Gwyneth Lewis & author @annabelabbs.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social with books by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nan Shepherd & #JaneAusten. 3pm Mon 8 Dec @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner chosen by the poet Gwyneth Lewis The LIving Mountain by Nan Shepherd picked by author Annabel Abbs Emma by Jane Austen chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The interior design master, Michelle Ogundehin & novelist Lisa St Aubin de Terán join @harriettsg.bsky.social to discuss some of their favourite #books. Lisa's choice is Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix which... 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n06h

#AGoodRead Today 15:00 BBCRadio4 WEDLOCK: HOW GEORGIAN BRITAIN'S WORST HUSBAND MET HIS MATCH Wendy Moore Kate Lister GRAYSON PERRY: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG GIRL Wendy Jones @harriettsg.bsky.social PLASTIC EMOTIONS by Shiromi Pinto @romatheengineer.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Writers Amy Sackville & Richard Benson join @harriettsg.bsky.social on A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 to champion books they love by Annie Ernaux, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Ferdinand von Schirach. Produced by Sally Heaven. Find many more book recommendations @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Yes, do listen. It’s a great discussion.

A comedy about radical Islam (seriously); our manufactured world; a motherhood mystery: an eclectic selection of book suggestions from @drjuliashaw.bsky.social Hayaatun Sillem & me on today’s A Good Read, 3pm on BBC Radio 4; online thereafter @nussaibah.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A daring comedy debut about de-radicalisation, an investigation of manufacturing & an unsettling novella. Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social engineer @HayaatunSillem & @harriettsg.bsky.social recommend #books they love. A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 #BBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Especially if you’re an elder sister, a great episode of @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social with Oyinkan Braithwaite chatting with readers about My Sister the Serial Killer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Books by Carol Shields, Umberto Eco & Abdulrazak Gurnah are the choices of @harriettsg.bsky.social & her A Good Read guests, neuroscientist Sophie Scott and writer Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social 3pm @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds Producer Becky Ripley www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Tennis, spies and Sonic Youth: the usual wild variety of book suggestions from Chris Tarrant, author Mike Gayle and me on A Good Read 3pm today @BBCRadio4 Come join us

#Books Chris Tarrant and Mike Gayle A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Chris Tarrant nominates OPEN by Andre Agassi Mike Gayle has gone for SONIC YOUTH SLEPT ON MY FLOOR by Dave Haslam @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ selects THE SECRET HOURS by Mick Herron www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Two memoirs and a thriller today on A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds as TV presenter Chris Tarrant & writer Mike Gayle join @harriettsg.bsky.social to champion #books they love. Tennis, DJing & espionage. Producer Sally Heaven www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Cannibal mothers; sex; fanaticism: novelist Sarah Waters and filmmaker Walter Murch introduce the usual heterogeneous mix of books on #agoodread @BBCRadio4 3pm today, online thereafter www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Looking for some book inspiration? A Good Read @BBCRadio4 is back - with a riveting roster of readers. Today, novelist Sarah Waters & film editor Walter Murch join @harriettsg.bsky.social to talk bears, fanaticism & Irish women. 3pm Mon 13 Oct. Producer Maggie Ayre. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

ICYMI Perfect for Halloween @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social chats with @silviamg.bsky.social about her fun, creepy novel Mexican Gothic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

You can hear Silvia Moreno-Garcia talk about 'Mexican Gothic' on World Book Club this Saturday, meanwhile here's a taster for you. Speaking of taste, I now want to try those pastes so badly... #booksky #gothic #horror #mexicangothic #silviamorenogarcia #wbc #bbc #history

@sherlockholmesmag.co.uk ICYMI Some great chat about Holmes, Watson, the Baskerville Hound and more with fans from around the world www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

The recent Arthur Conan Doyle episode of the wonderful BBC World Book Club was so marvelous! It was live at a bookshop in Edinburgh - the panelists were superb, the questions from around the world were excellent, and the Baskerville hound was just as terrifying as ever! Thx @harriettsg.bsky.social

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#Books A Good Read @BBCRadio4 #OnDemand RUNNING WITH SCISSORS by Augusten Burroughs, chosen by @robrinder.bsky.social‬ THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY by Vivian Gornick, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ EARTHLINGS by Sayaka Murata, chosen by @junodawson.bsky.social‬ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Fiction from Japan, a #memoir of adolescence & essays on New York life in today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The barrister & writer @robrinder.bsky.social & author @junodawson.bsky.social talk #books with @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Sally Heaven #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A totally weird Japanese novel; thoughts from NY; Augusten Burroughs' memoir: intriguing book suggestions from Rob Rinder & Juno Dawson on A Good Read, @BBCRadio4 3pm today; online thereafter. Come and join us

By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color — no more than the sand was a color and we had worn our bare feet bare since the twentieth of June - Anne Sexton #poetry

Zadie Smith & Colm Tóibín join @harriettsg.bsky.social for today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 A devoted father in Colombia, a modern-day picaresque through London, and a languid summer romance. Produced by Eliza Lomas #books #fiction #memoir www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 THE TRUCE by Primo Levi, chosen by @horatioclare.bsky.social‬ THE SUN DOES SHINE by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin, chosen by @joannahs.bsky.social‬ SULA by Toni Morrison, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Need some summer #reading inspiration? Join writer @horatioclare.bsky.social criminal defence barrister @joannahs.bsky.social & presenter @harriettsg.bsky.social to hear about the #books that have inspired them. A Good Read 3pm Mon 21 July @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@harriettsg.bsky.social + A Good Read have done it again! While I often have little interest in the books or topics, the guests and the discussions are unfailingly riveting, and I always learn so much! I listen to over 40 podcasts and this is one of the absolute best. Can't wait for each one. Thx!

The late Fleur Adcock's 2010 collection #DragonTalk will be discussed on A Good Read today, 14 July, chosen by host @harriettsg.bsky.social. Harriett Gilbert is joined by Desiree Akhavan & @rosiewilby.bsky.social. Tune in to BBC Radio 4 📻 at 3pm or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Female desire, the challenges of monogamy and whether life is over at 45. A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by filmmaker Desiree Akhavan & writer comedian @rosiewilby.bsky.social on the programme that is polyamorous for books #fiction #books www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 @herdyshepherd.bsky.social‬ picks is THE IRON AGE by Arja Kajermo Kiri Pritchard-McLean picks is A SHORT STAY IN HELL by Steven L Peck @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ picks STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL by Charlotte Wood www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read @hayfestival.bsky.social with guests James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social & @kiripritchardmc.bsky.social who join @harriettsg.bsky.social for some lively disagreement about novels set in Finland, Australia - and Hell. 3pm Mon 7 July @BBCRadio4 #books www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

To mark 100 years of #MrsDalloway, Fiona Shaw explores Three Transformations of Virginia #Woolf 9am Tues @BBCRadio4 with Michael Cunningham, Mark Haddon @naomialderman.bsky.social Sally Potter & Alexandra Harris. Readings by Gwendoline Christie. Producer Ellie Richold www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read - drummer Budgie & novelist Juhea Kim join @harriettsg.bsky.social to discuss favourite books by #Sartre #EvgenyVodolazkin & #JennyErpenbeck set in #France medieval #Russia & #Berlin 3pm Mon 30 June @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Books A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT by Sarah Winman, chosen by Harry Trevaldwyn THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho, chosen by Xantoné Blacq JAMES by Percival Everett, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social‬ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...