Booker-nominated novelist MJ Hyland
Friday 2 March 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Ian McMillan presents the weekly magazine about language. He is joined by Booker-nominated novelist MJ Hyland, who shares an exclusive extract from her forthcoming third novel.
Ian McMillan and the Modified Toy Orchestra
Ian McMillan with Brian Duffy of the Modified Toy Orchestra, and some of the Modified Toy Orchestra's instruments; Speak and Spell machines, as featured on The Verb this week.
Playlist
Ian McMillan hosts another spellbinding edition of the language cabaret, The Verb.
This week he's joined by the Booker nominated novelist M J Hyland, who presents an exclusive extract from her forthcoming novel This is How.
There's also an exploration of the great collection of early Welsh myths, the Mabinogion, and a contemporary love-letter to them from the urbane and gritty writer Niall Griffiths.
Ian also discusses a topic close to his heart, the use of dialect in literary fiction, with the help of novelists Giles Waterfield and Adam Thorpe, and he finds out about the random poetry generated by disused Speak & Spell machines, courtesy of the Modified Toy Orchestra.
FRENCH LANGUAGE WEEK COMPETITION
Next week it's French Language week and in the spirit of interaction, we want you to write us no more than two sentences which use as many French phrases as possible, but which would still be intelligible to someone who spoke English but no French.
For example, 'Au revoir to my espirit de corps because je ne sais quoi where it's gone, ma cherie!'. Entries in by Mercredi - that's Wednesday - 7th March, to: [email protected]
PRODUCTION DETAILS
MJ Hyland's Carry Me Down is published by Canongate.
Giles Waterfield's Markham Thorpe is published by Headline.
Adam Thorpe's Ulverton is published by Vintage. Between Each Breath is published by Jonathan Cape in May.
The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies is published by Oxford University Press.
Niall Griffiths's Runt is published Jonathan Cape.
Modified Toy Orchestra play as part of the Ether Festival at the Purcell Rooms, South Bank, London on Thursday 8th March. All further details at: www.myspace.com/toyorch
