The Book Show - Series 5
1 - Episode 1
Air Date: October 14, 2010
NEW SERIES 5 - Susan Hill, Sebastian Faulks, and James Ellroy
2 - Episode 2
Air Date: October 21, 2010
Jilly Cooper, Judith Kerr, and Salman Rushdie
3 - Episode 3
Air Date: October 28, 2010
Lynne Reid Banks, Justine Picardie, Barry Humphries, and Lee Child
4 - Episode 4
Air Date: November 4, 2010
Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl; Val McDermid; and Michael Frayn
5 - Episode 5
Air Date: November 11, 2010
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.
6 - Episode 6
Air Date: November 18, 2010
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.
7 - Episode 7
Air Date: November 25, 2010
India Knight talks about Comfort & Joy, Nicholas Evans on The Brave, and Amanda Foreman on A World on Fire
8 - Episode 8
Air Date: December 2, 2010
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.
9 - Episode 9
Air Date: December 9, 2010
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.
10 - Episode 10
Air Date: December 16, 2010
Nigella Lawson, Kevin McCloud, and Kate Morton
11 - Episode 11
Air Date: January 20, 2011
Biographer Sarah Bakewell, spin doctor and diarist Alistair Campbell, and cult film director John Waters
12 - Episode 12
Air Date: January 27, 2011
Lindsey Davis, Daisy Goodwin, and Raymond Khoury
13 - Episode 13
Air Date: February 3, 2011
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.
14 - Episode 14
Air Date: February 10, 2011
Linda Grant, Simon Sebag Montefiore, and Jane Shilling. Plus Belle de Jour's bedside reads, Mark Mills' Book Club, and Steve Bell's study.
15 - Episode 15
Air Date: February 17, 2011
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.
16 - Episode 16
Air Date: February 24, 2011
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.
17 - Episode 17
Air Date: March 3, 2011
Bath Literature Festival (1/2): Howard Jacobson, Colin Thubron, and Kim Edwards
18 - Episode 18
Air Date: March 10, 2011
Bath Literature Festival (2/2): Kazuo Ishiguro, David Starkey, and Aminatta Forna
19 - Episode 19
Air Date: March 17, 2011
Words by the Water: Jackie Kay, Valerie Grove, and Joanna Trollope
20 - Episode 20
Air Date: March 24, 2011
Ways With Words Festival: Salley Vickers, Manju Kapur, and Chris Mullin
21 - Episode 21
Air Date: March 31, 2011
Noughts and Crosses writer Malorie Blackman, Costa-nominated author Louise Doughty, and controversial historian Niall Ferguson.
22 - Episode 22
Air Date: April 7, 2011
Melvyn Bragg, Emma Donoghue, and Wendy Cope
23 - Episode 23
Air Date: April 14, 2011
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.
24 - Episode 24
Air Date: April 21, 2011
Philip Hensher, Peter Ackroyd, and Sara Paretsky
25 - Episode 25
Air Date: April 28, 2011
Stefanie Powers, Monica Ali,and Paula McLain
26 - Episode 26
Air Date: May 5, 2011
Simon Winchester, Esther Freud, and Eoin Colfer
27 - Episode 27
Air Date: May 12, 2011
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.
28 - Episode 28
Air Date: May 19, 2011
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.
29 - Episode 29
Air Date: May 26, 2011
Stella Tillyard, Douglas Kennedy, and Edward St Aubyn
30 - Episode 30
Air Date: May 28, 2011
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.
31 - Episode 31
Air Date: May 29, 2011
The Book Show at Hay (2/4): Professor Brian Cox, Henning Mankell, and Mark Logue
32 - Episode 32
Air Date: May 30, 2011
The Book Show at Hay (3/4): David Baddiel, Elif Shafak, and David Bailey
33 - Episode 33
Air Date: May 31, 2011
The Book Show at Hay (4/4): Victor Gregg, Adam Nicolson, and Marcus Sedgwick
34 - Episode 34
Air Date: June 2, 2011
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
35 - Episode 35
Air Date: June 9, 2011
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, and John Boyne
36 - Episode 36
Air Date: June 16, 2011
Colm Toibin, Liz Lochhead, and author/director Rebecca Miller (last episode of this series)