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|  | | Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents Mariella combines her television and radio career with that of a prolific journalist.
Over a fifteen-year TV career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs to movies and the arts.
As a journalist she is currently the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine, while her book reviews and travel pieces appear regularly in the press. She has also been a member of the Booker-Mann Prize panel.
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Read-a-holics
Are you, or have you ever been, addicted to reading. Are you a readaholic?
If reading is your absolute passion, then read some of the emails from Open Book listeners admitting to their own addiction to books.
John Grisham Competition Winners
Winner:
James Fidell, he wins an autographed copy by John Grisham of King of Torts.
Runner-up:
Trish Smart, who wins a hard back copy of King of Torts
This Week on Open Book:
In Open Book on Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock Mariella Frostrup talks to leading comedy writer Howard Jacobson about his new book Who's Sorry Now?, a book which tells the story of what happens when two friends get involved in a wife swap, and learn more about themselves than they bargained for.
Winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comedy for his last novel The Mighty Walzer Howard Jacobson has an unerring eye for the comic potential of all too human frailty.
And Open Book unravels the Mysterious delights of childhood reading and consider when a passion for reading may Become an addiction for those listeners who spent their childhoods with their nose in a book.
Francis Spufford author of The Child That Books Built talks about why children are able to surrender themselves to the imaginary world of fiction in a way that adults no longer can.
And what does the food characters eat, and the way they eat it, say about them. How do authors use food to create character and how has this changed historically? We present a potted history of some of our most well loved fictional characters from the point of view of their stomachs.
Books List
Who's Sorry Now
Howard Jacobson
The Child That Books Built
Francis Spufford
Darwin's Barnacle
Rebecca Stott
Beef and Liberty - Roast Beef, John Bull and The English Nation
Ben Rogers
Emma
Jane Austen
Paradise Lost
Milton
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
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