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.
[4] The one piece of advice her father, the writer Michael Gilbert, gave her about writing was: "For God's sake, don't use adverbs.
From 1992, she lectured in the Department of Journalism at the City University, London, where until 2008 she was also the programme director of the MA Creative writing (novels) course.
[9][failed verification] She previously presented the World Service's dedicated book programme The Word.
[11] Writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen called her "one of the very best presenters of arts programmes on radio or TV".
[12] The Financial Times said of her, "the splendid Harriett Gilbert [...] painfully shows up certain would-be arty Radio 4 colleagues".