Sunday 16:00-16:30, repeated Thursday 16:00-16:30, except first Sunday in the month when it is replaced by Book Club.
Booklists in Open Book programmes up to March 2009. For more recent editions of Open Book, and booklists, visit the new Open Book homepage.
March 2009
29/03/2009 Tom Rob Smith on his Soviet-era thriller; writing about Alzheimer's; and a walk round Venice with Donna Leon.
22/03/2009 - Maggie Gee on her Ugandan novel My Driver; novelists who write in pairs; and William Boyd on Raymond Chandler.
15/03/2009 - Marcel Theroux on global warming and life in Siberia; advice on historical fiction; and South Africa's era of literary censorship.
08/03/2009 - Joan Bakewell makes her literary debut in her seventies; PD James on the underrated novels of Cyril Hare; and animal biographies.
February 2009
22/02/2009- Sanjida O'Connell on researching a novel in Outer Mongolia; Beryl Bainbridge revels in the work of Hans Fallada; and Iain Banks on his science fiction.
15/02/2009 - Sophie Hannah, Edwin Drood and a book written in a single paragraph.
08/02/2009 - Kate Grenville, recession literature and readers' guide to John Updike
January 2009
25/01/2009 Charles Elton, readers clinic, Mills and Boon and rugby, and how not to write a novel.
18/01/2009 Niccolo Ammaniti on The Crossroads; Roberto Bolano's posthumous masterpiece; and revelations about Dracula.
11/01/2009 Jay McInerney; the Scandinavian crime industry; and US Presidents' bedtime reading.
December 2008
28/12/2008 An Open book special on writing about familiesÂ
21/12/2008 Nigella Lawson's five favourite books, Aravind Adiga and first novels
14/12/2008 The pick of 2008 Children's books; the poet Sean O'Brien and Norman Maclean remembered
November 2008
30/11/2008 Ian Buruma on his book The China Lover; Christmas picks and longer lasting books
23/11/2008 Will Self on William Burroughs; Bluebeard; and books about the our planet
16/11/2008- Shena Mackay on the short story; American reading habits and could books help beat the credit crunch?
26/10/2008- Bernard Cornwell, seventy years of the Teach Yourself books and Nevil Shute's chilling classic.
19/10/2008 - Thomas Keneally, Alexander Linklater on his father Eric and reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary
12/10/2008Â - Misha Glenny with Paul Auster, and the Cheltenham Literature Festival
September 2008
28/09/2008Â Zoe Heller, Alan Sillitoe and books for men.
21/09/2008Â Marilynne Robinson, the late David Foster Wallace, Irene Nemirovsky and book collecting.
14/09/2008 The Poldark series, Tibor Fischer, books for a rainy day and Frankenstein in fiction.
August 2008  31/08/2008 Andrew Miller, children’s book websites, Arthur C Clarke, and W G Sebald
24/08/2008 Muriel Gray with Philippa Gregory, graphic novels, love letters and the work of Max Blecher.
17/08/2008 Owen Sheers in New York with Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, and writing in Brooklyn
10/08/2008 Owen Sheers in New York with Meg Wolitzer, e-books and the Morgan Library.
July 2008
27/07/2008 John Healy, Deirdre Madden, and art in literature.
20/07/2008 Raymond Briggs, Robert Edric and Seth Lerer on the the origins of children's literature.
13/07/2008Â Patrick McGrath, Herman Melville and the lure of upstairs/downstairs.
June 2008
29/06/2008 In a crime-filled edition of Open Book, Irvine Welsh talks about his dark new novel; John Banville reflects on his move from the literary to the criminal; and two writers discuss their new sleuths.
22/06/2008Â Dave Pelzer, Adam Thirlwell on Les Miserables, objects found in second hand books, and a reading clinic: adult reading for teenagers.
15/06/2008Â Damon Galgut on his new book, rewriting fiction for the American market and a book inspired by Ulysses.
08/06/2008 Susan Hill on her crime fiction; Paul Bailey on Andrei Makine; and an ex-prisoner explains how life inside influenced his fiction debut.
May 2008
25/05/2008 A Hay Festival special with Andrew Davies, Tim Smith, Philip Kerr and Catherine O'Flynn
18/05/2008 Sebastian Barry on writing and salmon fishing, classics that read like thrillers, and fictional twins.Â
11/05/2008 John Burnside on his new novel Glister, the office novel, unusual book advertising and the star of book design, Chip Kidd.
April 2008
27/04/2008- William Sutcliffe, Dmitri Nabokov on his father's unfinished novel; and Robert Ryan and Janis Cooke Newman on 'factioning' of famous lives
20/04/2008- Will Self, Philip Hensher on VS Naipaul; and a rediscovered novel by Dumas
13/04/2008- Salley Vickers, Macmillan New Writing Scheme and fictionalising artists
March 2008
30/03/2008Julia Donaldson, author of the Gruffalo, on telling stories to your kids; Jo Brand chooses her five favourite books and the literature of Armageddon
24/03/2008Andrew Grieg on his new novel Romanno Bridge, the transition from writing columns to novels, this week's Reading Clinic on where to begin and Jenny Uglow profiles Mrs. Gaskell
16/03/2008Â Manil Suri on The Age of Shiva, writers who have worked in bookshops, a reading clinic on books on Berlin and the rise of independent publishers
09/03/2008- Justine Picardie on Daphne du Maurier, interactive novels, fake holocaust memoirs and how we evolved to cope with the written word
February 2008
24/02/2008 Richard Dawkins chooses his Five of the Best; Clare Morrall on music and solitary childhood and the strange world of Jose Saramago
17/02/2008 Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader, on his new novel; Gissing's classic New Grub Street revisited; and the first review of a completely blank book.
10/02/2008 Joanna Trollope on her latest book; Carol Tololski and Frank Tallis on psychoanalytical fiction and a literary discovery.
January 2008
27/01/2008 Will Self on the visionary novels of J. G. Ballard; Helen Dunmore explains her fascination with an ancient Latin poet; and do philosophy and fiction mix?
20/01/2008 Children's author Eoin Colfer, translations and public funding, and public schools in fiction.
16/12/2007 Novelist Benjamin Markovits, Christmas non-fiction picks and Chinese writer, Eileen Chang
 09/12/2007 Australian novelist Christopher Koch, Christmas fiction picks and the classics rewritten for children.
November 2007
25/11/2007 Richard Russo on Bridge of Sighs, the art of idling, Sweeney Todd and marketing books
18/11/2007- Norman Mailer, reading and ethnic diversity and football fiction
11/11/2007- Alice Sebold, Saki and the death of the traditional book
October 2007
28/10/2007 Jane Gardam, classics works from different angles, science fiction, and war of words over Tolstoy
21/10/2007 Malorie Blackman, websites for new authors and erotic fiction
14/10/2007 Douglas Coupland, John Cowper Powys, long books and Martin Bell
September 2007
30/09/2007 Michael Ondaatje, illustrated books for adults, and a neglected Dickens
23/09/2007 Geraldine McCaughrean, weather in fiction and a reader's guide to Saul Bellow
16/09/2007 Peter Ackroyd , New Writing Ventures and stories from the Second World War
09/09/2007 Jonathan Coe, Booktrust, Prue Leith and Jane Austen spinoffs
August 2007
26/08/07 Robert Macfarlane in the wilderness, judging a book prize and Adrian Chiles' five favourite books
19/08/07Joseph Conrad, Nicholas Shakespeare on marriage and biographers on working with the family.
12/08/2007Elif Shafak, writing as a teenager, Virginia Woolf's servants and seasonal publishing
July 2007
29/07/2007 Marcus Sedgwick, Vintage Twins, Italian Crime fiction and the writer-agent relationship on stage.
22/07/2007 Summer reading, Sam North and Sue Townsend on audio books
15/07/2007 Armistead Maupin, Mark Knopfler and childrens books for adults
08/07/2007 John Harvey, Online Publishing, Parent Child Writing Relationships and H Rider Haggard
June 2007
24/06/2007 Gordon Brown, and the Harry Potter Phenomenon
17/06/2007 An Open Book special on novelist, Penelope Lively
 14/06/2007 Michael Chabon, Louise Doughty and North East Teenagers
May 2007Â
27/05/2007HAY ON WYE SPECIAL: Gordon Brown, Thomas Keneally, bookselling and promoting in Hay on Wye, and Rachel Carson.
20/05/2007Owen Sheers, Science Fiction, American book critics and blubs
13/05/2007Â Archaeology in fiction, the great American novel and Helen Oyeyemi
April 2007
29/04/2007 Sebastian Faulks, Political Writing and W Somerset Maugham
22/04/2007Anne Enright, talking sheep, Pulitzer prize and condensed classics
15/04/2007 Graham Swift, Writing from beyond the grave and US fiction
March 2007
25/03/2007 China Mieville, Derek Landy and Historical fiction for children
 18/03/2007 Jim Crace, Ali Smith on Katherine Mansfield, Vernon God Little and time in novels
11/03/2007 Tracy Chevalier, longhand versus typing, book websites and Kevin Jackson
February 2007
25/02/2007 Gerard Woodward, teaching tips for Martin Amis and dishing the dirt in office fiction
18/02/2007 Saga writing, reading philosophy with children and book websites
11/02/2007 Justin Cartwright, music in libraries, typeface and Bernard Cooper
January 2007
28/01/2007Â Sophie Kinsella, Kidnapped, Stef Penney and Georgina Harding
