Open Book Clips

1. Paterson Joseph on the incredible life of Charles Ignatius Sancho, the first black Briton to vote

   Duration: 11:08

2. The 2022 Woman's Prize winner, Ruth Ozeki

   Duration: 05:31

3. Richard Beard on time: Fictional journeys in the future tense

   Duration: 03:39

4. Richard Beard on time: The power of the present tense

   Duration: 03:41

5. Richard Beard on time: How writers explore the past tense

   Duration: 03:43

6. Richard Beard on writing: How social media has helped deformat fiction

   Duration: 03:55

7. Richard Beard on writing: Exploring the power of punctuation

   Duration: 03:42

8. Richard Beard on writing: The look of a book

   Duration: 03:49

9. Richard Beard on writing: Why is most writing written in the third person?

   Duration: 03:55

10. Richard Beard on writing: The second person 'you' in fiction writing

    Duration: 04:21

11. Richard Beard on writing: The 'i' viewpoint of the first person

    Duration: 03:59

12. Hear an extended version of Open Book at the London Literature Festival

    Duration: 49:23

13. Open Book's Green Reading List with Amitav Ghosh and Nina Mingya Powles

    Duration: 09:59

14. A Literary Postcard from Sri Lanka

    Duration: 03:37

15. Damon Galgut - Extended Interview

    Duration: 27:10

16. "The joke I used to say to myself was that I was trying to do for the actor what Melville did for the whaler"

    Duration: 19:18

17. "Few Australians still cling to the belief that climate change isn’t real. Yet in realist fiction, it seldom registers..."

    Duration: 09:40

18. "Charles Dickens makes language feel physical, like you can touch it"

    Duration: 16:41

19. An introduction to ... A Christmas Carol

    Duration: 05:44

20. An introduction to ... Pride and Prejudice

    Duration: 06:07

21. An introduction to ... Kidnapped

    Duration: 04:56

22. An introduction to ... Jane Eyre

    Duration: 05:31

23. BBC Introductions - Radio 4's syllabus guide to.... Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Duration: 05:18

24. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - A Close Reading

    Duration: 05:24