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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.
Since 2011, A Good Read has been presented by the writer, broadcaster and academic Harriett Gilbert, now the programme's longest serving presenter. [6] 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.
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.
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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. Once a month its slot was taken over by World Book Club, in which listeners submitted questions to a famous writer.
Gilbert married Roberta Mary Marsden in 1947; together the couple had two sons and five daughters. One daughter, Harriett, born in 1948, became a novelist and broadcaster for BBC World Service. Gilbert died at the age of 93 on 8 February 2006 at his home in Luddesdown, Gravesend, Kent. He was survived by Roberta, his wife of nearly sixty years ...