Original version

BBC World Service Online

World Book Club

Podcasts

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

World Book Club: Pat Barker - Regeneration

WW1 patients recuperating in hospital in 1918

Pat Barker - Regeneration

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Pat Barker - Regeneration

The author discusses the psychological impact of World War I

This week, as part of the continuing global commemorations of the First World War, World Book Club is in sombre mood with another timely chance to hear multi-award-winning British writer Pat Barker. 

She talks about her internationally renowned novel Regeneration, the first in the trilogy of novels which culminated in the Booker Prize winner The Ghost Road. 

Also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now recognised twenty-two years after its publication as a modern war classic, Regeneration is a part historical, part fictional exploration of how the traumas of the so-called Great War brutalised a generation of young men.

Picture: WW1 patients recuperating in hospital in 1918. Credit: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

World Book Club

Pat Barker - Regeneration

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service