Books

Matthew Sweet and guests explore what weapons mean - in the past and now.

Harriett Gilbert talks with John Connolly about 'The Book of Lost Things'.

Daljit Nagra selects another highlight from the BBC's poetry archive. With Grace Nichols.

The award-winning writer on her 2007 Booker-shortlisted novel, Darkmans.

Readings by Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff and excerpts from David Attenborough's memoir

Alexander McCall Smith and Professor Lucie Green talk good books with Harriett Gilbert.

Harriett Gilbert talks with John Connolly about 'The Book of Lost Things'.

From Shakespeare to Richmal Crompton and Billy Collins; Bach, Walton to Grace Williams.

Daljit Nagra celebrates Shakespeare with a highlight from the BBC's poetry archive.

David Aaronovitch, Catherine Coldstream, Linda Woodhead and others join Matthew Sweet.

Actors Pearce Quigley and Lydia Wilson with readings about princesses, spells and frogs.

Daljit Nagra selects two programmes from the rich seams of the BBC's poetry archive.

From gardens and kissing to heaven and hell, Troy to Watergate: in music, prose and poetry

Daljit Nagra selects a highlight about East Lincolnshire from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra selects a programme from the BBC's poetry archives to mark Easter Sunday.

Dorothy Koomson talks to a Bookclub audience about her 2010 novel The Ice Cream Girls.

Octavia Bright talks to Ragnar Jonasson about his thriller, The Darkness

More favourite books with Harriett Gilbert and guests.