Programme Index

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 1^st Sep 2014, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 2^nd Sep 2014, 01:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Thomas Sutcliffe, Richard Holmes and Geoff Dyer discuss works by Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Bernard. From March 1998. Show more

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Orlando Figes and Michael Schmidt

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 15^th Sep 2014, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 16^th Sep 2014, 01:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Orlando Figes and Michael Schmidt discuss books by Elizabeth Bishop, Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James. From July 1998. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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A Good Read

Penelope Fitzgerald and William Sieghart

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 22^nd Sep 2014, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 23^rd Sep 2014, 01:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Penelope Fitzgerald and William Sieghart discuss Sarah Orne Jewett, Alan Isler and Jane Austen. From July 1998.

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Bella Bathurst and David Bell

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 29^th Jan 2018, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 30^th Jan 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Bella Bathurst, Sir David Bell and Sue MacGregor discuss books by Tony Parker, Patricia Highsmith and Joe Klein. From August 2005. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Ian Sansom and Virginia Ironside

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 5^th Feb 2018, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 6^th Feb 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Ian Sansom and Virginia Ironside discuss books by Julian MacLaren-Ross, Lorna Sage and Bohumil Hrabal. From August 2005. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Rabbi Julia Neuberger and Paul Farley

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 9^th Apr 2018, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 10^th Apr 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Julia Neuberger and Paul Farley discuss books by Marghanita Laski, Bernard Shaw and Ian Marchant. From January 2006. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Philippa Gregory and Jonathon Porritt

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 24^th Sep 2018, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 25^th Sep 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Philippa Gregory and Jonathon Porritt discuss books by Gilbert White, Edith Wharton and Bruce Chatwin. From November 2006. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Adam Sisman and Tim Lott

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 13^th Mar 2007, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 20^th Nov 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut Sue MacGregor, Adam Sisman and Tim Lott discuss books by John Wyndham, Jean Rhys and David Almond. From March 2007. Show more

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Tim Marlow and Marina Warner

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 27^th Mar 2007, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 4^th Dec 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Tim Marlow and Marina Warner discuss books by Bret Easton Ellis, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Kazuo Ishiguro. From March 2007. Show more

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Marjorie Wallace and Richard Francis

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 17^th Dec 2018, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 18^th Dec 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Marjorie Wallace and Richard Francis discuss books by Madeleine Masson, Benjamin Markovits and Philip Marsden. From June 2007. Show more

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Shappi Khorsandi and Roberta Taylor

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 24^th Dec 2018, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 25^th Dec 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Shappi Khorsandi and Roberta Taylor discuss books by Marjane Satrapi, Ben Rice and Margaret Atwood. From June 2007. Show more

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Jean Seaton and Bill Thompson

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 31^st Dec 2018, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 1^st Jan 2019, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Professor Jean Seaton and Bill Thompson on books by Anne Tyler, Penelope Lively and William Gibson. From June 2007. Show more

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Sophi Tranchell and Alison Graham

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 10^th Jul 2012, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 13^th Jul 2021, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Sophi Tranchell, Alison Graham and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Henning Mankell, Jonathan Coe and Graham Greene. From 2012. Show more

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Judy Simpson and Tom Watt

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 28^th Jul 2014, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 29^th Jul 2014, 01:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Judy Simpson and Tom Watt on novels by Mary Shelley, Candia McWilliam and Akif Pirincci. From January 1998. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Jim Crace and Lorelei King

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 27^th Oct 2014, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 28^th Oct 2014, 01:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Jim Crace and Lorelei King discuss books by Grace Paley, Gerald Kersh and Tim Parks. From August 1998. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Kit Wright and Wendy Cooling

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 10^th Nov 2014, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 11^th Nov 2014, 01:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Kit Wright and Wendy Cooling discuss children's books by Philip Pullman, AA Milne and Richmal Crompton. From August 1998. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Marie Helvin and Charles Secrett

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 29^th Dec 2014, 18:30 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Tue 30^th Dec 2014, 01:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Marie Helvin and Charles Secrett discuss books by John Steinbeck, Elizabeth Gaskell and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. From December 1998. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Jon Snow and Christopher Frayling

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 7^th Feb 2006, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 22^nd May 2018, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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4 Extra Debut. Sue MacGregor, Jon Snow and Christopher Frayling discuss books by Francoise Sagan, MR James and Alexander Masters. From February 2006. Show more

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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Discussion & Talk

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A Good Read

Adam Kay and Farrah Jarral

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 12^th Jun 2018, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Fri 15^th Jun 2018, 23:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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