Wachtel, Eleanor

An interview and readings by Indian author Amitav Ghosh
Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz discusses the poet's dilemma and his 'ecstatic pessimism'
A conversation with American author E.L. Doctorow
An interview with South African writer Nadine Gordimer
An interview with American writer Gore Vidal
Interview with British writer Beryl Bainbridge, with readings from her book, The Birthday Boys.
An interview with the Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe
A panel on book reviewing, with Katherine Ashenburg, Rebecca Sinkler, and Harry Ritchie. Plus, an interview and reading from writer and animal trainer Vicki Hearne
An interview with dissident intellectual and world famous linguist, Noam Chomsky
All about Ireland! A panel with Dermot Bolger and Roy Foster. And Roddy Doyle reads from his Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
Part One of a special series on Irish writers, with William Trevor
An interview and reading from Canadian author Mavis Gallant
From science fact to science fiction - interviews with astronomer and science communicator, Carl Sagan, and with the "father" of cyberpunk science fiction, William Gibson
Margaret Atwood talks about The Robber Bride, with readings from the book
International Short Story Series, Part 1: with Isabel Allende
International Short Stories Series, Pt. 3: with J.G. Ballard
International Short Stories Series, Pt. 1: with Edna O'Brien
Interview with Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky, and a discussion on the English language, with Tom McArthur and Jay Ingram
A Mother's Day Special, with Audrey Thomas and Suzanna Walters
A special episode with Nigerian Nobel Prize winner, Wole Soyinka
Historical fiction and science fiction: Interviews with British Authors Martin Amis and Tom Shippey
Pt. 1: Biographer Kenneth Silverman On Edgar Allen Poe. Pt. 2: Women in Crime Panel with Liza Cody and Sara Paretsky
Interviews with monologist Spalding Gray and writer Diana Souhami
A special program on African-American author Toni Morrison
Interview with British mystery writer, P.D. James.. And biographer Nicholas Boyle on the life of Goethe