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...

#Books A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 BIG SWISS by Jen Beagin, chosen by @nussaibah.bsky.social A HEART SO WHITE by Javier Marías, chosen by Josh Cohen THE END OF EDDY by Edouard Louis, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...