World Book Club

Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy talks to the programme about winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.(First broadcast December 2002)(Photo: Arundhati Roy) (Credit: HOCINE ZAOURAR/AFP/Getty Images)

Martin Amis joins an audience of World Service listeners to answer questions about his novel Money. Broadcast in October 2002.(Photo: Martin Amis, 2006. Credit: BBC)

What makes Stephen King, not only the Master of Horror, but more than that?(Image: Stephen King speaking in 2009. Credit: Mike Segar/Reuters)

In the First ever Meridian Writing World Book Club, Harriett Gilbert talks to American writer Garrison Keillor on his book Lake Wobegon Days.

Interview with the playwright and director, David Hare.

Interview with American poet, memoirist, actress, Maya Angelou. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

Zimbabwean novelist,poet and playright Chenjerai Hove talks to Harriett Gilbert about his novel 'Ancestors'. This programme with Chenjerai Hove, who died in 2015, was first broadcast in February 2002.

Harriett Gilbert talks to the Egyptian writer, Bahaa Taher an Egyptian novelist who writes in Arabic and is the winner of the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction, awarded in 2008.

Interview with Iain Sinclair on his book, 'London Orbital'. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.