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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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Open Book would like to hear from listeners about books that have had a life changing impact on you. And we mean life changing – books that have in some fundamental way altered your outlook and affected the way you live your life. Follow this link to find out more...
The Reading Clinic:
Do you have a problem that concerns books? If so, Open Book's Reading Clinic wants to hear from you.
For instance, do you have a partner who never reads and want some suggestions as to what might entice them in to the world of literature?
Are there some books or genres that you have never managed to get your head round and to which you'd like an introduction?
What book do you give to the person who has read everything?
Where do I start with Proust?
What book should I take on a long train journey?
How do you get teenage boys to read?
If you want a full and frank discussion of your particular literary conundrum, then Open Book's Reading Clinic can prescribe the right book for you.
Please contact Open Book here with your literary ailment, giving as many details as you can including a daytime contact number if possible.
This week's programme:
Where do you go after the diaries of Alan Clark? Mariella Frostrup delves into the world of political diary and memoir with Dr Mo Mowlam and journalist Anthony Howard.As Robert Baden-Powell’s handbook Scouting for Boys is re-printed, we look at his recommended reading for boys and explore how far their tastes have changed. Plus, the burgeoning market for music biography: poet and musician Martin Newell goes in search of the perfect rock book.
List of Books:
Austin Clarke’s novel is The Polished Hoe (Tindal Street Press)
Reader’s Clinic: Political Diaries
Diaries: Into Politics; Diaries: In Power;The Last Diaries: In and Out of the Wilderness by Alan Clark (Phoenix)
The Diaries of Sir Henry “Chips” Channon ed. Robert Rhodes-James (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
Give Me Ten Seconds by John Sargeant (Pan)
John Major: The Autobiography by John Major (HarperCollins)
The Point of Departure by Robin Cook (Simon & Schuster)
Time of my Life by Denis Healey (Penguin)
The Benn Diaries 1940-1990 by Tony Benn (Arrow)
Free At Last! Diaries, 1991-2001 by Tony Benn (Arrow)
European Diary, 1977-1981 by Tony Benn (HarperCollins)
A Life at the Centre by Roy Jenkins (Macmillan)
Bravemouth: Living With Billy Connolly by Pamela Stevenson (Headline)
How Do You Want Me? by Ruby Wax (Ebury)
Books for Scouts:
Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden Powell ed. Elleke Boehmer (OUP)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Penguin)
Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Penguin)
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Penguin)
Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling (Penguin)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Penguin)
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle (Dover)
Le Morte D’Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Knights of the Round Table by Sir Thomas Malory (Signet Classics)
Rock biographies:
The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles (Hal Leonard Corporation)
Rolling Stones: In Their Own Words by D. Dalton, M Farren (Putnam)
Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher (Omnibus)
Cider With Roadies by Stuart Maconie (Ebury)
Morrissey and Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan (Omnibus)
The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn (Bounty)
Revolution in the Head: Beatles Records and the Sixties by Ian Macdonald (Pimlico)
Diary of a Rock and Roll Star by Ian Hunter (Independent)
Head On: Memories of the Liverpool Punk Scene by Julian Cope (Head Heritage)
The Big Wheel by Bruce Thomas (Helter Skelter)
Every Mother For Himself by Ed Jones (Fourth Estate)
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