Books And Authors
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This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. In Open Book Mariella Frostrup talks to authors about their work. In A Good Read Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books.
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A Good Read: Denise Mina and Simon Brett
17/06/2024 Duración: 27minABSENT IN THE SPRING by Agatha Christie (writing as Mary Westmacott) (HarperCollins), chosen by Simon Brett IN THE GARDEN OF THE FUGITIVES by Ceridwen Dovey (Penguin), chosen by Denise Mina HIDE MY EYES by Margery Allingham (Penguin), chosen by Harriett GilbertCrime writers Denise Mina and Simon Brett join Harriett Gilbert to read each other's favourite books.Simon chooses Agatha Christie under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, with Absent In The Spring. It’s a story without any detective and one that, perhaps, reveals a more personal side to Christie's writing.Denise picks the novel In the Garden of the Fugitives by South African-Australian author Ceridwen Dovey, an epistolary novel which begins with a letter that breaks seventeen years of silence between a rich, elderly man with a broken heart and his former protegee, a young South African filmmaker.And for the occasion of having two crime authors, Harriett Gilbert picks a golden age crime book, Hide My Eyes by Margery Allingham, where private detective Albert
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Open Book - Kevin Barry
16/06/2024 Duración: 27minJohny Pitts talks to Kevin Barry about his new novel, The Heart in Winter
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A Good Read: Samantha Harvey and Darran Anderson
10/06/2024 Duración: 27minQUARTET IN AUTUMN by Barbara Pym, chosen by Samantha Harvey MRS CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls, chosen by Harriett Gilbert PHARMACOPOEIA: A DUNGENESS NOTEBOOK by Derek Jarman, chosen by Darran AndersonTwo award-winning writers share books they love with Harriett Gilbert.Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio
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A Good Read: Dan Schreiber and Kathryn Hughes
07/06/2024 Duración: 27minHistorian and author Kathryn Hughes and No Such Thing As a Fish presenter Dan Schreiber recommend favourite books to Harriett Gilbert. Kathryn chooses Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes, an exploration of the French writer's life in the form of a novel. Dan's choice is very different - John Higgs taking on the conceptual artists and chart toppers The KLF. Harriett has gone for Michael Ondaatje's novel Warlight, set in a murky and mysterious post-war London.Presenter: Harriett GilbertProducer for BBC Audio Bristol: Sally Heaven
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Open Book - Maggie Nelson
26/05/2024 Duración: 27minOctavia Bright talks to Maggie Nelson about Like Love, an anthology of essays which explore art and friendship and criticism. And a new prize for climate fiction.Presenter: Octavia Bright Producer: Nicola Holloway
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Open Book - Sarah Perry
19/05/2024 Duración: 27minSarah Perry talks to Shahidha Bari about her new novel, Enlightenment
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Open Book - Hari Kunzru
12/05/2024 Duración: 27minHari Kunzru talks to Shahidha Bari about his new novel, Blue Ruin
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Open Book - Sunjeev Sahota
28/04/2024 Duración: 27minSunjeev Sahota talks to Alex Clark about his new novel, The Spoiled Heart
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Open Book - Sinéad Gleeson
21/04/2024 Duración: 27minSinéad Gleeson is a writer, broadcaster and editor of three anthologies of Irish writing. Her collection of essays, Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards, and now publishes her debut novel, Hagstone.Hagstone is set on a remote island of the coast of Ireland, it tells the story of Nell an artist whose work takes inspiration from the landscape and folklore. When she receives an invitation to create a piece of art from the Inions, a reclusive commune of women living sustainably on the island, things begin to unravel. Sinead discusses the precarity of living as an artist, the folklore which infuses Hagstone and dedicating the book to the late activist and artist Sinead O' Connor.The Book Makers by Adam Smyth is a celebration of five hundred and fifty years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary people. The printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders - who took the book in radical new d
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Carol Morley and Will Hislop
26/03/2024 Duración: 28minFilm director Carol Morley and comedian Will Hislop discuss their favourite books.
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Open Book: Carys Davies, Annie Ernaux
24/03/2024 Duración: 27minCarys Davies on her new novel, Clear. Plus Annie Ernaux and photography
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Jonathan Buckley, Lit Crit and David Baddiel
21/03/2024 Duración: 27minJonathan Buckley, Lit Crit and David Baddiel
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A Good Read: Christopher Eccleston and Lindsey Hilsum
19/03/2024 Duración: 28minJUST KIDS by Patti Smith, chosen by Lindsey Hilsum MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor E. Frankl (trans. Ilse Lasch), chosen by Christopher Eccleston TOWARDS THE END OF THE MORNING by Michael Frayn, chosen by Harriett GilbertThe television journalist and actor share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor of Channel 4 News, loves Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, her account of coming to New York as a young woman and of her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. It's a coming-of-age story set against the heady backdrop of 1970s counterculture; it's a story of becoming an artist; and it's a love story that turns into an elegy.The actor Christopher Eccleston chooses Man's Search for Meaning, the psychotherapist Viktor Frankl's account of his time in Nazi concentration camps and how those experiences informed his belief that man's deepest need is to search for meaning and purpose. It's a powerful book about retaining one's humanity in the face of unimaginable suff
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Katy Hessel and Amy Blakemore
12/03/2024 Duración: 28minArt historian Katy Hessel and author Amy Blakemore discuss their favourite books.
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Daphne du Maurier
10/03/2024 Duración: 27minOpen Book explores Daphne du Maurier and the enduring qualities and appeal of her writing
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A Good Read: Andrew McMillan and Kathryn Williams
05/03/2024 Duración: 27minON WRITING by Stephen King, chosen by Kathryn Williams THE BITCH by Pilar Quintana (translated by Lisa Dillman), chosen by Harriett Gilbert ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute, chosen by Andrew McMillanThe singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams loves books about the craft of writing and her choice of a good read is 'On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft', by the master of horror, Stephen King. The book gave her practical tools and advice which helped her to write her debut novel, The Ormering Tide. She also loves what we learn about King's life - from his flatulent childhood nanny to the devastating 1999 accident which almost ended his life.Harriett's choice this week is The Bitch by Colombian author Pilar Quintana, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. In a village on the Pacific coast of Colombia, between wild jungle and wild seas, a childless woman develops a complicated relationship with an orphaned puppy.And the poet and novelist Andrew McMillan chooses On the Beach by Nevil Shute. In Australia, a group of people
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A Good Read Paterson Joseph and Richard Coles
28/02/2024 Duración: 28minMore books worth reading chosen by well known guests