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Bookclub Clips

  1. "China Miéville on creating worlds in his fantasy novel The City & The City"

    Duration: 02:30

  2. "What opens as a story in which a 20 year old girl is exploited by her teacher becomes something more complicated than that."

    Duration: 03:47

  3. David Nicholls on how he chose the names of the characters in One Day

    Duration: 01:12

  4. "On a daily basis I can be fascinated, awed and horrified by humans...one person can do all three to me in any given moment."

    Duration: 02:11

  5. “I wanted to counterpoint it with something that would be ignored by the media: an unknown person meeting the same tragic fate”

    Duration: 01:57

  6. "And then my son had a brain tumor… Doctors can’t suffer enough, really"

    Duration: 02:34

  7. “I was shivering… I realised this was something that might get me into trouble.”

    Duration: 03:20

  8. “My heart went out to him… He loses his home and he never finds his way back”

    Duration: 01:35

  9. 'The more I learn about people, the more I like them.'

    Duration: 01:30

  10. "I just thought I would write this for my children..."

    Duration: 01:39

  11. "He was a sailor airman manque and that's always a powerful thing in a man, to be rejected from what you want to do."

    Duration: 01:34

  12. James Naughtie looks back over 200 editions of Bookclub

    Duration: 02:58

  13. “He would have loved for me to take over the family practice, and of course I was never going to be a doctor.”

    Duration: 01:34

  14. "I was interested in the way music sometimes aggravates emotion..."

    Duration: 01:48

  15. Douglas Adams talks about Winnie the Pooh

    Duration: 00:27

  16. Douglas Adams talks about Monty Python

    Duration: 00:48

  17. Douglas Adams imagines himself as an artist

    Duration: 00:41

  18. Allan Massie "Friendship does transcend political divisions sometimes"

    Duration: 01:59

  19. Sadie Jones on Surrey as the dark heart of Britain

    Duration: 03:12

  20. Lorrie Moore: “I was at a moment where the novel was wide open. I saw this painting so I put it in.”

    Duration: 01:41

  21. Emma Donoghue on her kidnap story 'Room': "I had to act like the characters’ captor when writing the book"

    Duration: 01:10

  22. Author of The Slap on the moment that inspired his novel

    Duration: 02:00

  23. I had many letters from people who said ‘I was bereaved and this is exactly how I felt…’

    Duration: 01:16

  24. 'I had a feeling I shouldn't be writing the book'

    Duration: 01:35

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