
Episodes List

Ep.1 Episode 1
Air Date: 2010-10-14
NEW SERIES 5 - Susan Hill, Sebastian Faulks, and James Ellroy

Ep.2 Episode 2
Air Date: 2010-10-21
Jilly Cooper, Judith Kerr, and Salman Rushdie

Ep.3 Episode 3
Air Date: 2010-10-28
Lynne Reid Banks, Justine Picardie, Barry Humphries, and Lee Child

Ep.4 Episode 4
Air Date: 2010-11-04
Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl; Val McDermid; and Michael Frayn

Ep.5 Episode 5
Air Date: 2010-11-11
Iain M Banks on his latest sci-fi novel Surface Detail, Michelle Paver on why she finds the arctic such a scary place in her new novel Dark Matter, and Bernard Cornwell on how necessity drove him to become a novelist and his latest book The Fort.

Ep.6 Episode 6
Air Date: 2010-11-18
Helen of Troy in jeans Bettany Hughes, travel writer Tim Butcher, and satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. Plus, Alison Weir on The Write Place and Ken Follett's bedside reads.

Ep.7 Episode 7
Air Date: 2010-11-25
India Knight talks about Comfort & Joy, Nicholas Evans on The Brave, and Amanda Foreman on A World on Fire

Ep.8 Episode 8
Air Date: 2010-12-02
Conn Iggulden, Michael Holroyd, and Dawn French on their latest books and what every 21 year old should be reading. Plus a look inside Philip Kerr's study, Peter Carey's favourite bookshop, and Tara Palmer Tomkinson's bedside reads.

Ep.9 Episode 9
Air Date: 2010-12-09
Sir Michael Parkinson talks about lasting fame as Emu's interviewer and being grumpy, Edmund de Waal shows off his family heirlooms, and PD James on turning real life detective. Plus the first of our Xmas book recommendations.

Ep.10 Episode 10
Air Date: 2010-12-16
Nigella Lawson, Kevin McCloud, and Kate Morton

Ep.11 Episode 11
Air Date: 2011-01-20
Biographer Sarah Bakewell, spin doctor and diarist Alistair Campbell, and cult film director John Waters

Ep.12 Episode 12
Air Date: 2011-01-27
Lindsey Davis, Daisy Goodwin, and Raymond Khoury

Ep.13 Episode 13
Air Date: 2011-02-03
Guest authors Matthew Parris, Leila Aboulela, and writer/director Rowan Joffé. Also Armistead Maupin on his Bedside Reads, Jonathan Safran Foer reads us his Fine Line, Colin Dexter gives his Book Club Recommendation, and Sister Wendy reveals her writing habits.

Ep.14 Episode 14
Air Date: 2011-02-10
Linda Grant, Simon Sebag Montefiore, and Jane Shilling. Plus Belle de Jour's bedside reads, Mark Mills' Book Club, and Steve Bell's study.

Ep.15 Episode 15
Air Date: 2011-02-17
Wendy Holden, Anthony Quinn, and Edna O'Brien as well as a trip to Paris to see Victor Hugo's study, as well as Rebecca Hunt's bedside reads and Philip Kerr's Book Club selection.

Ep.16 Episode 16
Air Date: 2011-02-24
Allison Pearson, Helen Dunmore, and Francesca Beauman. Plus: Hugh Bonneville on his book club choice, Kate Mosse on The Write Place, and Alexander McCall Smith reveals his bedside reads.

Ep.17 Episode 17
Air Date: 2011-03-03
Bath Literature Festival (1/2): Howard Jacobson, Colin Thubron, and Kim Edwards

Ep.18 Episode 18
Air Date: 2011-03-10
Bath Literature Festival (2/2): Kazuo Ishiguro, David Starkey, and Aminatta Forna

Ep.19 Episode 19
Air Date: 2011-03-17
Words by the Water: Jackie Kay, Valerie Grove, and Joanna Trollope

Ep.20 Episode 20
Air Date: 2011-03-24
Ways With Words Festival: Salley Vickers, Manju Kapur, and Chris Mullin

Ep.21 Episode 21
Air Date: 2011-03-31
Noughts and Crosses writer Malorie Blackman, Costa-nominated author Louise Doughty, and controversial historian Niall Ferguson.

Ep.22 Episode 22
Air Date: 2011-04-07
Melvyn Bragg, Emma Donoghue, and Wendy Cope

Ep.23 Episode 23
Air Date: 2011-04-14
Biographer Hugo Vickers tells all about Wallis Simpson, bestselling rom-com author Jenny Colgan serves up a feast, and Jennifer Egan tells us about her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad which she says is Proust meets The Sopranos.

Ep.24 Episode 24
Air Date: 2011-04-21
Philip Hensher, Peter Ackroyd, and Sara Paretsky

Ep.25 Episode 25
Air Date: 2011-04-28
Stefanie Powers, Monica Ali,and Paula McLain

Ep.26 Episode 26
Air Date: 2011-05-05
Simon Winchester, Esther Freud, and Eoin Colfer

Ep.27 Episode 27
Air Date: 2011-05-12
Bestseller Wilbur Smith, Sky News' presenter turned novelist Kay Burley, and John Julius Norwich gives us an audience when he discusses his new book The Popes.

Ep.28 Episode 28
Air Date: 2011-05-19
Jodi Picoult discusses her latest, Sing You Home. Caradoc King, literary agent turned writer, discusses his powerful memoir Problem Child. Irish novelist Paul Murray talks about his tragi-comic novel set in a Dublin boarding school, Skippy Dies.

Ep.29 Episode 29
Air Date: 2011-05-26
Stella Tillyard, Douglas Kennedy, and Edward St Aubyn

Ep.30 Episode 30
Air Date: 2011-05-28
The Book Show at Hay (1/4): Paul Theroux, Jeffery Deaver, and Cerys Matthews - who also entertains us with a song from her new album.

Ep.31 Episode 31
Air Date: 2011-05-29
The Book Show at Hay (2/4): Professor Brian Cox, Henning Mankell, and Mark Logue

Ep.32 Episode 32
Air Date: 2011-05-30
The Book Show at Hay (3/4): David Baddiel, Elif Shafak, and David Bailey

Ep.33 Episode 33
Air Date: 2011-05-31
The Book Show at Hay (4/4): Victor Gregg, Adam Nicolson, and Marcus Sedgwick

Ep.34 Episode 34
Air Date: 2011-06-02
Terry Jones on his Animal Tales and new film, author Rosamund Lupton with her latest, and Deborah Moggach pays tribute to Beryl Bainbridge's career

Ep.35 Episode 35
Air Date: 2011-06-09
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, and John Boyne

Ep.36 Episode 36
Air Date: 2011-06-16
Colm Toibin, Liz Lochhead, and author/director Rebecca Miller (last episode of this series)