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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. She also currently presents the Radio 2 arts show, The Green Room and The Culture Show on BBC2.
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 judging panels for various awards including the Booker-Mann Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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|  | | Detail from the cover of 'Runaway' by Alice Munro.
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This week's programme
Mariella talks to the doyenne of the short story, Alice Munro, who explains why she can't write characters she doesn't like. She would, she asserts, rather abandon a story than put a truly unpleasant character on the page. Are publishers waking up to the needs of Black and Asian writers and readers? And, the reading group that turned a hobby into a career.
Programme Book List
1) Runaway - Alice Munro
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 0701177500
Her newest novel, to be published in February 2005.
2) Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099422743
3) Queenie - Alice Munro
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1861971192
4) The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099287862
5) Selected Stories - Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099732416
6) Open Secrets - Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 009945971X
7) Friend of my Youth - Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099820609
8) The Progress of Love - Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099741318
9) The Moons of Jupiter - Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099458365
10) Who Do You Think You Are? - Alice Munro
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140241582
11) Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You - Alice Munro
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140072896
12) The Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories - Alice Munro
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014012408X
13) Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 0452254337
14) The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 0007144415
British Black and Asian Writing
15) Moses, Citizen and Me - Delia Jarrett Macauley
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 186207741X
To be published in February 2005.
16) Fitzgerald's Wood - David Nwokedi
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 0224073435
To be published in April 2005.
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