From Moby Dick to the Moomins, exploring the books that captured the world's imagination
The Russian writer who exposed the grim, nightmarish world of Soviet forced labour camps
A man transforms into a kind of huge vermin overnight – Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
The author of the American classic ‘Walden’
Jules Verne's classic adventure novel
Tove Jansson was the Finnish-Swedish author and illustrator best known for the Moomins.
Daniel Defoe’s classic adventure story
Life and works of the man who transformed Chinese literature.
One of Russia’s favourite novels that combines magical fantasy with dark political satire
The scathing critic of deceit and corruption in Vienna
The dark, tumultuous life of America’s great gothic writer
A giant of twentieth century American culture
How a play in which nothing happens created a revolution in contemporary theatre
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the life, work and legacy of Mark Twain
Radical visionary, artist and poet
How a philosophical thinker radically changed the way we see women
The 19th Century epic novel on a vengeful sailor’s battle with the great ‘white whale’
The imagined poetic voyage through Hell that explores the meaning of human existence
Who was Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and how did he come to write The Little Prince?
The life and work of the ground-breaking Nigerian author
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic is one of the most famous poems in the English language
The life, poetry and legacy of 13th Century Sufi poet Rumi
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the origins and the legacy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The life of doctor and literary star Arthur Conan Doyle.
The story behind this weird and wonderful literary classic
