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English writer, academic and broadcaster

Harriett Sarah Gilbert (born 25 August 1948) is an English writer, academic and broadcaster, particularly of arts and book programmes on the BBC World Service. She is the daughter of the writer Michael Gilbert. Besides World Book Club on the World Service, she also presents A Good Read on BBC Radio 4.

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Before the programme was cancelled, she also presented the BBC World Service programme The Strand.

Biography

Born in Hornsey, London, Gilbert was educated at the French Lycée in London and at a succession of boarding schools. "Growing Pains" was her contribution to Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties (1985), a collection of autobiographical writing.^[1] After graduating from drama school, she worked as an actor.^[2] She also worked as a nanny, a waitress, an artist's model and a clerk-typist.

She began to write in her twenties.^[3]

She nominated A High Wind in J Harriett Gilbert - Wikipedia FYPO