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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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This Week's Programme
Simon Sebag Montefiore talks to Mariella about his revealing biography of one of the 20th century's most notorious figures, Joseph Stalin. And from devilish tyrant to profound humanist: the 18th century French writer Voltaire, comes under the microscope in a new biography by Ian Davidson. Also, stand up comic and crime writer Mark Billingham reveals the secrets of his very different arts. And old stories providing the inspiration for new ones - does it matter if you rework tried and tested classics?
Programme Book List:
1) Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Publisher: Phoenix mass market
ISBN: 0753817667
2) Voltaire in Exile, Ian Davidson
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1843540878
3) The Burning Girl, Mark Billingham
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 0316725749
4) The Food of Love, Anthony Capella
Publisher: Time Warner Books
ISBN: 0316726737
5) A Good Voyage, Katherine Davis
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
ISBN: 0701176946
6) Candide, Voltaire, Roger Pearson (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0192834266
7) Complete Works of Shakespeare
Publisher: OxfordUniversity Press
ISBN: 0198711913
8) Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand,
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0192836439
9) Wise Children, Angela Carter
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099981106
10) A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 0006544827
11) Juggling, Barbara Trapido
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 014023604X
12) Human Croquet, Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312155506
13) The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099283999
14) Ophelia, Jeremy Trafford
Publisher: House of Stratus Ltd
ISBN: 0755104447
15) Gertrude and Claudius, John Updike
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140290907 A Very Model of a Man
16) Only Human, Jenny Diski
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 1860499147
17) Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141182857
18) Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
Publisher: Faber
ISBN: 0571913644
19) Lord of the Flies, William Goldin
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571191479
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