with Christopher Ricks Jo Grimond, MP, on CB: a life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson - the first biography for 50 years.
Angela Carter on The Social Novel in England 1830-1850 by Louis Cazamian, a provocative account by a French scholar of the great Victorian novels of protest.
John Taylor on the latest sci-fi thriller by Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle, The Inferno.
Anthony Payne on Varese, a diary by the composer's wife which ranges over the musical life of Paris and New York at the turn of the century.
Also: a new series Eye on Society which starts off by looking at addicts, prisoners and misfits of various sorts.