A Good Read

Find reading inspiration with favourite books chosen by our guests.

Radio 4,706 episodes

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Quentin Blake and Allan Ahlberg
Louise Doughty, Quentin Blake, Allan Ahlberg on books by Carson McCullers, John Masefield.
26 Dec 2000,30 mins
Kirsty Wark & Gabriel Gbadamosi
Louise Doughty, Kirsty Wark and Gabriel Gbadamosi discuss a trio of books.
19 Dec 2000,30 mins
Ray Gaita & Anthea Bell
Louise Doughty, Ray Gaita and Anthea Bell discuss Inga Clendinnen and Jenny Diski.
12 Dec 2000,30 mins
Tariq Ali and Jean Binta Breeze
Louise Doughty is joined by author Tariq Ali and Jamaican dub poet Jean Binta Breeze.
05 Dec 2000,30 mins
Rabbi Saul Djanogly and Bishop James Jones
Louise Doughty, Rabbi Saul Djanogly and Bishop James Jones discuss favourite written works
05 Sep 2000,30 mins
Les Murray and Annie Nightingale
Annie Nightingale and Les Murray discuss books by Geoff Dyer and Philip Gourevitch.
22 Aug 2000,30 mins
Professor Alan Cook and Siobhan Davies
The panel discuss books by AS Byatt, Haruki Murakami and Imogen De La Bere.
15 Aug 2000,30 mins
Diran Adebayo and Sarah Walker
Louise Doughty, novelist Diran Adebayo and singer Sarah Walker debate books.
08 Aug 2000,30 mins
Christopher Frayling and Razia Iqbal
Louise Doughty, Christopher Frayling and Razia Iqbal discuss favourite paperbacks.
01 Aug 2000,30 mins
Lyn MacDonald and Colin Blakemore
Louise Doughty, Colin Blakemore and Lyn MacDonald debate books.
02 May 2000,30 mins
Michael Barber and Zadie Smith
Michael and Zadie talk books by Sebastian Junger, Stephen E Ambrose and Vladimir Nabokov.
25 Apr 2000,30 mins
Peter Lachmann and Helen Marriage
Louise Doughty, Peter Lachmann and Helen Marriage discuss paperbacks.
18 Apr 2000,30 mins
Virginia Ironside and Jeremy Lewis
Louise Doughty is joined by Jeremy Lewis and Virginia Ironside to discuss books.
11 Apr 2000,30 mins
Baroness Margaret Jay and Ekow Eshun
Margaret and Ekow discuss books by Douglas Coupland, Colm Toibin and Philip Larkin.
04 Apr 2000,30 mins,
Sir Christopher Bland and Charlie Higson
Louise Doughty and guests discuss books by JM Coetzee, Jim Thompson and George Orwell.
28 Mar 2000,30 mins
Frederic Raphael and Amanda Vickery
Frederic and Amanda discuss paperbacks by AS Byatt, Peter Robb and Ronald Wright.
11 Jan 2000,30 mins
Sir Robert May and Pauline Melville
Louise Doughty, Robert May and Pauline Melville discuss books by Primo Levi, Gilbert White
04 Jan 2000,30 mins
Professor Richard Gregory and Henrietta Green
Margaret Forster, Richard Gregory and Henrietta Green discuss paperbacks.
28 Dec 1999,30 mins
Margaret Forster, Joan Bakewell and Gerard McBurney
Margaret Forster, Joan Bakewell and Gerard McBurney select books to debate.
21 Dec 1999,30 mins
Bonnie Greer, John Polkinghorne and Arnold Brown
Bonnie Greer and guests discuss paperbacks by JM Coetzee, Keith Ward and Alison Lurie.
14 Dec 1999,30 mins
Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Professor Mary Douglas
Jeremy Isaacs and Mary Douglas discuss Laurence Sterne, RL Stevenson and Barbara Reynolds.
07 Dec 1999,30 mins
Nicola Davies and Max Jarrett
Discussing paperbacks by Fannie Flagg, Ralph Ellison and Giles Foden. From November 1999.
30 Nov 1999,30 mins
John Sergeant and Hunter Davies
Bel Mooney, John Sergeant and Hunter Davies discuss Evelyn Waugh and Alfred Wainwright.
23 Nov 1999,30 mins
Baroness Blackstone and Julian Le Grand
Baroness Blackstone and Julian Le Grand discuss JM Coetzee, Patrick O'Brian, Jane Gardam.
07 Sep 1999,30 mins
Souad Faress and John Sutherland
Souad Faress and John Sutherland discuss books by Salman Rushdie and James Baldwin.
31 Aug 1999,30 mins
Mike Figgis and Mike Hodges
Mike Figgis and Mike Hodges discuss books by James Blinn, Frederick Exley and Barbara Pym.
24 Aug 1999,30 mins
Mavis Cheek and Robert Elms
Mavis and Robert discuss books by Jerome K Jerome, Cormac McCarthy and Norman Lewis.
17 Aug 1999,30 mins
Anne Harvey and Peter Preston
Sarah, Peter and Anna discuss books by Cicely Hamilton, Raymond Chandler and Rose Tremain.
10 Aug 1999,30 mins
Pippa Greenwood and Phill Jupitus
Sarah, Phill and Pippa discuss books by Helene Hanff, Stephen Fry and Amy Tan.
03 Aug 1999,30 mins
Simon Hoggart and Jenny Lacey
Sarah, Simon and Jenny discuss books by Ellen Gilchrist, Michael Frayn and Anthony Powell.
27 Jul 1999,30 mins