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Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari
Jim Naughtie
Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on BBC Radio 4
Our conversation was sometimes serious, but never gloomy.
Bookclub: Tulip Fever
Jim Naughtie
Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on BBC Radio 4
Jim Naughtie talks to novelist Deborah Moggach, whose book Tulip Fever takes us back to a brief time in 17th century Dutch society when a single tulip could be worth as much as a house.
International Short Story Award: Winner Announced
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
Editor's note: The International Short Story Award winner was announced this week. Here, Editor of Readings Di Speirs talks about the awards. Find out more on the ISSA webpages. PMcD And so to Freeword on Wednesday night for the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award announcement w...
Bookclub: Arundhati Roy on The God of Small Things
Jim Naughtie
Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on BBC Radio 4
Arundhati Roy with Jim and the Bookclub audience I do hope those of you who have heard the Arundhati Roy discussion on The God of Small Things enjoyed it. There are very few books of this kind that come our way, so it was a natural for us. Sooner or later we had to come to it. You can hea...
Book at Beachtime
Lucy Collingwood and Gemma Jenkins
Editor's introduction: For the next four weeks Radio 4 Extra's running a season of "gripping, escapist summer reading... twisted family drama, sweeping romance and, above all, great story-telling by best-selling authors old, new and to come..." I asked the producers, Lucy Collingwood (LC) and Ge...
King James Bible podcasts
Paul Sargeant
How much of King James Bible Day did you catch on Sunday? It was hard to miss with 28 readings across a single day and a star-studded cast: Samuel West, Emilia Fox, Hugh Bonneville, Toby Stephens, Henry Goodman, Niamh Cusack, Rory Kinnear, Miriam Margolyes and others. There were some interest...
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 ...
The BBC National Short Story Award
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
Hurrah! At last. After all the waiting, and the reading, and the deliberating we have at last reached the moment when we can reveal this year's short-list of five contenders for the BBC National Short Story Award (BBC NSSA). These five have survived the turbulent and exacting examination of firs...
Miriam Margolyes on Bluestockings
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
While Miriam Margolyes was recording the current Book of the Week, Bluestockings, it became clear that the text had particular meaning for her because she had been a Bluestocking herself. Producer Justine Willett writes: Cambridge University is celebrating its 800th anniversary this year. And...
Facebook on Radio 4
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Book of the Week on Radio 4 this week is Ben Mezrich's Accidental Billionaires, a book whose subtitle (at least in the American edition) is: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. Perfect Radio 4 material then. As you'd expect, the book has its own Facebook profile....
