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A Good Read Episodes

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    Quentin Blake and Allan Ahlberg

    Louise Doughty, Quentin Blake, Allan Ahlberg on books by Carson McCullers, John Masefield.

  2. Kirsty Wark & Gabriel Gbadamosi

    Louise Doughty, Kirsty Wark and Gabriel Gbadamosi discuss a trio of books.

  3. Ray Gaita & Anthea Bell

    Louise Doughty, Ray Gaita and Anthea Bell discuss Inga Clendinnen and Jenny Diski.

  4. Tariq Ali and Jean Binta Breeze

    Louise Doughty is joined by author Tariq Ali and Jamaican dub poet Jean Binta Breeze.

  5. Rabbi Saul Djanogly and Bishop James Jones

    Louise Doughty, Rabbi Saul Djanogly and Bishop James Jones discuss favourite written works

  6. Sir Roy Strong and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

    Louise Doughty, Roy Strong and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown debate books.

  7. Les Murray and Annie Nightingale

    Annie Nightingale and Les Murray discuss books by Geoff Dyer and Philip Gourevitch.

  8. Professor Alan Cook and Siobhan Davies

    The panel discuss books by AS Byatt, Haruki Murakami and Imogen De La Bere.

  9. Diran Adebayo and Sarah Walker

    Louise Doughty, novelist Diran Adebayo and singer Sarah Walker debate books.

  10. Christopher Frayling and Razia Iqbal

    Louise Doughty, Christopher Frayling and Razia Iqbal discuss favourite paperbacks.

  11. Lyn MacDonald and Colin Blakemore

    Louise Doughty, Colin Blakemore and Lyn MacDonald debate books.

  12. Michael Barber and Zadie Smith

    Michael and Zadie talk books by Sebastian Junger, Stephen E Ambrose and Vladimir Nabokov.

  13. Peter Lachmann and Helen Marriage

    Louise Doughty, Peter Lachmann and Helen Marriage discuss paperbacks.

  14. Virginia Ironside and Jeremy Lewis

    Louise Doughty is joined by Jeremy Lewis and Virginia Ironside to discuss books.

  15. Baroness Margaret Jay and Ekow Eshun

    Margaret and Ekow discuss books by Douglas Coupland, Colm Toibin and Philip Larkin.

  16. Sir Christopher Bland and Charlie Higson

    Louise Doughty and guests discuss books by JM Coetzee, Jim Thompson and George Orwell.

  17. Frederic Raphael and Amanda Vickery

    Frederic and Amanda discuss paperbacks by AS Byatt, Peter Robb and Ronald Wright.

  18. Sir Robert May and Pauline Melville

    Louise Doughty, Robert May and Pauline Melville discuss books by Primo Levi, Gilbert White

  19. Professor Richard Gregory and Henrietta Green

    Margaret Forster, Richard Gregory and Henrietta Green discuss paperbacks.

  20. Margaret Forster, Joan Bakewell and Gerard McBurney

    Margaret Forster, Joan Bakewell and Gerard McBurney select books to debate.

  21. Bonnie Greer, John Polkinghorne and Arnold Brown

    Bonnie Greer and guests discuss paperbacks by JM Coetzee, Keith Ward and Alison Lurie.

  22. Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Professor Mary Douglas

    Jeremy Isaacs and Mary Douglas discuss Laurence Sterne, RL Stevenson and Barbara Reynolds.

  23. Nicola Davies and Max Jarrett

    Discussing paperbacks by Fannie Flagg, Ralph Ellison and Giles Foden. From November 1999.

  24. John Sergeant and Hunter Davies

    Bel Mooney, John Sergeant and Hunter Davies discuss Evelyn Waugh and Alfred Wainwright.

  25. Baroness Blackstone and Julian Le Grand

    Baroness Blackstone and Julian Le Grand discuss JM Coetzee, Patrick O'Brian, Jane Gardam.

  26. Souad Faress and John Sutherland

    Souad Faress and John Sutherland discuss books by Salman Rushdie and James Baldwin.

  27. Mike Figgis and Mike Hodges

    Mike Figgis and Mike Hodges discuss books by James Blinn, Frederick Exley and Barbara Pym.

  28. Mavis Cheek and Robert Elms

    Mavis and Robert discuss books by Jerome K Jerome, Cormac McCarthy and Norman Lewis.

  29. Anne Harvey and Peter Preston

    Sarah, Peter and Anna discuss books by Cicely Hamilton, Raymond Chandler and Rose Tremain.

  30. Pippa Greenwood and Phill Jupitus

    Sarah, Phill and Pippa discuss books by Helene Hanff, Stephen Fry and Amy Tan.

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