A Good Read Episodes Episode guide
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Howard Davies & Eleanor Updale
Eleanor Updale and Howard Davies on books by Louisa May Alcott and Patrick Hamilton.
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Sir Menzies Campbell & Alain de Botton
Menzies Campbell and Alain de Botton on books by Roy Hattersley and Nicholson Baker.
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Monica Ali and Kevin Crossley-Holland
Monica Ali and Kevin Crossley-Holland discuss books by Jeanette Winterson, Julia Blackburn
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Jancis Robinson & Peter Preston
Jancis Robinson and Peter Preston discuss books by Max Hastings Elizabeth David.
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Hannah Gordon & Louise Welsh
Hannah Gordon and Louise Welsh discuss books by Dodie Smith and James Hogg.
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Ken Russell & Ben Haggarty
Ken Russell and Ben Haggarty on books by Michael Frayn and Hugh Brody.
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Steve Norris & Theodore Zeldin
Steve Norris and Theodore Zeldin discuss books by Hanif Kureishi and JM Coetzee.
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Diana Athill & John Calder
Diana Athill and John Calder discuss books by Helen Dunmore and Aldous Huxley.
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Steven Isserlis & Ardashir Vakil
Steven Isserlis and Ardashir Vakil discuss novels by Carlo Levi and Richard Yates.
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Anna Raeburn & Paulette Randall
Sue MacGregor joins Anna Raeburn and Paulette Randall to talk about their favourite books.
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Michael Buerk and Tine van Houts
Michael Buerk and Tine van Houts on books by Alice Munro, Graham Greene and Aidan Hartley.
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Clare Short and Beryl Bainbridge
Sue MacGregor is joined by former minister Clare Short and novelist Beryl Bainbridge.
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Stephen Frears and Sarah Waters
Stephen Frears and Sarah Waters discuss books by Arthur Ransome and Roddy Doyle.
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Roger Deakin & Kristine Landon-Smith
Roger Deakin and Kristine Landon-Smith discuss books by Shyam Selvadurai and TH White.
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Doris Lessing & Kenneth Grange
Doris Lessing and Kenneth Grange discuss books by Claire Messud and John Krakauer.
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Brian Sewell & Josephine Hart
Brian Sewell and Josephine Hart discuss books by Simon Raven and Barbara Vine.
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Alan Coren & Anna Shapiro
Alan Coren and Anna Shapiro discuss favourite books by Philip Roth and Leo Tolstoy.
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Fi Glover & Steve Jones
Steve Jones and Fi Glover on books by Charles Kingsley and Samantha Weinberg.
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Jane Smiley & Helen Lederer
Jane Smiley and Helen Lederer discuss books by Muriel Spark and Nadine Gordimer.
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Mary Midgley and Al Alvarez
Mary Midgley and Al Alvarez discuss Doris Lessing and Barbara Kingsolver.
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Tony Howard & Ivan Massow
Tony Howard and Ivan Massow on books by John Lister-Kaye and Marguerite Yourcenar.
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Elaine Showalter & Romesh Gunesekera
Elaine Showalter and Romesh Gunesekera on books by Willa Cather and Primo Levi.
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Anthony Green & Kathleen Griffin
Anthony Green and Kathleen Griffin discuss UA Fanthorpe, Ernst Gombrich and Robert Sole.
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Carol Drinkwater & Peter Stanford
Sue MacGregor, Carol Drinkwater and Peter Stanford on Ann Patchett and F Scott Fitzgerald.
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Esther Rantzen & Oliver James
Esther Rantzen and Oliver James on paperbacks by Jessica Mitford and Angela Carter.
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Claire Rayner and Miles Kington
Claire Rayner and Miles Kington discuss paperbacks by Axel Munthe and Sarah Waters.
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Maureen Lipman & Christina Odone
Maureen Lipman and Christina Odone on books by James Lees-Milne and Carol Shields.
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Anthony Minghella & Susan Jeffreys
Anthony Minghella and Susan Jeffreys discuss books by Harper Lee and Anne Carson.
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Aminatta Forna & Tim Healey
Aminatta Forna and Tim Healey discuss books by Laura Blumenfeld and Pascal Khoo Thwe.
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William Boyd & Paul Foot
William Boyd and Paul Foot discuss books by Evelyn Waugh and Vladimir Nabokov.