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 families
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
12/10/2008 - Misha Glenny with Paul Auster, and the Cheltenham Literature Festival
September 2008
28/09/2008Zoe Heller, Alan Sillitoe and books for men.
21/09/2008Marilynne 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.
13/07/2008 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.
22/06/2008Dave Pelzer, Adam Thirlwell on Les Miserables, objects found in second hand books, and a reading clinic: adult reading for teenagers.
15/06/2008Damon Galgut on his new book, rewriting fiction for the American market and a book inspired by Ulysses.
08/06/2008Susan 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.
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
16/03/2008Manil 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.
