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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 'Nature Cure' by Richard Mabey.
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This week's programme
Mariella Frostrup talks to Britain's foremost nature writer, Richard Mabey, about his moving account of emerging from the depths of a three year depression and reconnecting with nature and life. Reading masterpieces in the original - AN Wilson sings the praises of reading Tolstoy and Goethe in their native language. Plus, a listener who only wants to read short classics - the Reading Clinic prescribes!
Programme Book List
1) Nature Cure - Richard Mabey
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 0701176016
Short Classics
2) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140620486
3) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0142437204
4) The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099740915
5) Middlemarch - George Eliot
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 1853262374
6) Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140126708
7) Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140126716
8) Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
ISBN: 1853260010
9) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 0099419785
10) Doctor Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140620516
11) The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140620613
12) Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141182601
13) The Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140818030
14) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141185104
15) The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Steidl
ISBN: 3865210155
16) The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552149519
Foreign Language Books
A sample to inspire you to read on in the original language:
17) Linguistic Analysis of Biblical Hebrew - Sue Groom
Publisher: Paternoster Press
ISBN: 1842271644
18) Collected Stories - Alexander Pushkin trans. Paul Debreczeny
Publisher: Everyman Classics
ISBN: 1857152514
19) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 1853260622
20) Faust: Parts 1 and 2 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans Robert David Macdonald
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 1870259114
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