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| Meet the Presenter |
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Harriett Gilbert presents two literary programmes on the BBC World Service - the weekly magazine programme The Word and the monthly World Book Club.
World Book Club, which is recorded in front of a live studio audience, celebrated its fifth birthday last week. Some of the guests on the programme have included Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, VS Naipaul, PD James, Ben Okri and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Before coming to the BBC, Harriett was literacy editor of The New Statesman and City Limits magazine. Her father was a crime novelist, and she herself is the author of six novels including Hotels With Empty Rooms and The Riding Mistress as well as non-fiction books including A Women's History of Sex and The Sexual Imagination from Acker to Zola. |
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Harriett also presented arts programmes for the BBC's domestic channels Radio 4 and Radio 3 as well as presenting arts programmes on BBC4 television.
When not presenting programmes, she lectures in the Department of Journalism at City University in London.
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"I think I'm doing the dream job, I just love it, and I can't think of anywhere else I'd like
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Harriett Gilbert, presenter of The Word and World Book Club on BBC World Service.
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