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|  | | | | | | | | | Erin Riley makes arts programmes for BBC Radio including Open Book, Front Row, Night Waves and The Verb. She's worked as an arts reporter for Radio Ireland in Dublin and has produced documentaries on a wide range of subjects including Elvis impersonators, the history of poetry on the radio and the language of memory loss. |
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This Week's Programme
Erin Riley talks to Graham Norton about his autobiography So Me. He reflects on turning forty, a stabbing which changed his life and not wanting his mum to read it.
As The Unbearable Lightness of Being is twenty, Jan Culik, lecturer at Glasgow University, examines Milan Kundera's Czech classic and explains why it has never been published in Kundera's native country
Writer Ronan Bennett discusses lawlessness, punishment and gory detail from the seventeenth century in his Booker nominated new novel Havoc in its Third Year.
And what happens to unwanted books? We report from a high security shredding factory.
Programme Book List
1) So Me, Graham Norton
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
ISBN: 0340833483
2) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN: 0571224385
3) Havoc in its Third Year, Ronan Bennett
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747562490
4) The Catastrophist, Ronan Bennett
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