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This week, from England, a surprising and quite brilliant novelist: Edward St Aubyn. He's transformed his own painful upbringing into remarkably entertaining fiction in his Patrick Melrose series.

Host Eleanor Wachtel welcomes author David Lodge. Though he's most widely known for hilarious novels, Trading Places and Ginger, You're Barmy, Lodge - a retired Professor of English at the University of Birmingham - has written highly acclaimed works of literary analysis, including Consciousness and the Novel. Lodge talks about his latest book, Thinks.

Original Minds: wide-ranging conversations with some of the most inspired thinkers of our time. Series 1, Episode 1: Jonathan Miller. Today launches a special series called Original Minds. We start with the multitalented writer, performer, and director, Dr. Jonathan Miller.