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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) is a series of classical books, mostly novels, published by the Norwegian Book Clubs since 2002. It is based on a list of the hundred best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Book Club. [ 1 ]
Ethel Bilbrough (1868–1951), English First World War diarist and artist; Maine de Biran (1766–1824), French writer, philosopher and mathematician; Léon Bloy (1846–1917), French novelist, poet and pamphleteer; Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), English squire; Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writer