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Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much?
Peter McHugh
Producer
Producer Peter McHugh joins crime writer Mark Billingham as he investigates why Edgar Wallace 'King of Thrillers' is fast becoming a literary unknown.
In Our Time: Mrs Dalloway
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
Publishing Lives - A New Series
Robert McCrum
Writer, Editor
Robert McCrum previews the new series of Publishing Lives - focusing on the role of women in books. Highlighting some of the most influential women of the 20th century, who have presided over the golden age of reading.
Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out: Mark Billingham's Rule Book of Crime
Peter McHugh
Producer
Producer Peter McHugh discusses 'Mark Billingham's Rule Book of Crime', and what it was that started Mark's crime obsession.
The Bookclub author interview archive - literary treasure
Jim Naughtie
Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on BBC Radio 4
Looking through the list of Bookclub recordings brings back some extraordinary memories... of Joseph Heller talking about Catch 22, Wendy Cope reading poetry in a basement studio in Broadcasting House while the story from New York was coming in on September 11, 2001, Muriel Spark reading from Th...
Sue MacGregor steps down from A Good Read
Clare McGinn
Head of Radio & Music Production, Bristol
A few weeks ago, at the Bristol Old Vic, Sue MacGregor announced to the audience that this was to be her final programme as the regular presenter of A Good Read. Our guest reviewers were the acclaimed actor Timothy West, who has a strong connection with the theatre and with Bristol, and the best...
The BBC National Short Story Award 2010
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
It's been a strange week, locked in a studio recording a novel about secrets and conspiracy in Stalinist Russia and then dashing 8 floors up, to conspiratorially huddle over the short list of this year's BBC National Short Story Award intent on ensuring total secrecy until the announcement on Th...
The Coral Thief
Elizabeth Allard
It's in the can! All ten episodes of Rebecca Stott's compelling new novel The Coral Thief, are recorded and edited and ready for broadcast. When I was searching earlier in the autumn for a Book at Bedtime to fill January's wintry evenings, my editor handed me The Coral Thief to see if it might ...
Words and pictures from the National Short Story Awards
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
The nice people at Book Trust have sent us some pictures from the awards ceremony Monday night - and there are more here on Flickr. Shortlisted Lionel Shriver's got an excellent piece about short stories in The Independent. She writes: Exchange Rates, short-listed last month for the National S...
Shrt stry awrd - anncmnt Mnday
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
Editor's note. Update: of course, the award has now been announced. Kate Clanchy is the winner. The Telegraph covered the announcement, as did The Guardian. Congratulations to Kate Clanchy! - SB Not long now until our final meeting in a discreet London venue, to pick this year's winner. Which i...
