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Harriett Sarah Gilbert (born 25 August 1948) is an English writer, academic and broadcaster, particularly of arts and book programmes on the BBC World Service. She is the daughter of the writer Michael Gilbert. Besides World Book Club on the World Service, she also presents A Good Read on BBC Radio 4.
World Book Club is a radio programme on the BBC World Service. Each edition of the programme, which is broadcast on the first Saturday of the month with repeats into the following Monday, [ 1 ] features a famous author discussing one of his or her books, often the most well-known one, with the public.
Harriett Gilbert regularly presented the Monday and Friday editions, as well as (on the first Saturday of every month) the new hour-long version of long-standing BBC World Service programme World Book Club. She said of the new programme: "I'm delighted to be presenting The Strand. As a daily programme, it will be a great position to reveal ...
The Word was a weekly half-hour radio programme on the BBC World Service about books and writers. Its final edition was in October 2008. Its final edition was in October 2008. Once a month its slot was taken over by World Book Club , in which listeners submitted questions to a famous writer.
Time Magazine named Leah Johnson’s “You Should See Me in A Crown” one of the “100 Best YA books of All Time.” But after the book was reviewed for “obscene” material, Johnson decided ...
Gilbert had been the host of World Book Club on the BBC World Service since 2002, which she continues to present. Collectively the panellists review their chosen titles. The books are always in-print paperbacks and affordable, and the reviews are honest and genuinely driven by the taste of the guests. Recently the programme has reviewed graphic ...
Cindy Ord/Getty Images Sarah J. Maas has been the queen of romantasy for nearly a decade now, but the rise of BookTok has only made her more popular — and now it seems like everyone is ready to ...
The Reprint Society, trading as World Books, was a book club in the United Kingdom founded by Alan Bott in 1939 who also started the Book Society, the Avalon Press and Pan Books. The club dominated the middle brow sector of the book club business in the U.K. until it was sold in 1966.