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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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This week's programme
Mariella Frostrup talks to Ian McEwan, whose new novel, Saturday, is about to be published. McEwan began writing short stories which shocked critics and readers alike because of their unsettling content. But as he's developed as a writer, books such as Enduring Love, The Child In Time and Atonement have won him a wide readership and the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam.
Saturday centres around Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon who wakes up early one morning to see what he thinks is a terrorist attack out of his bedroom window. The date is February 15th 2003 and as Anti Iraq-War marchers assemble in London, Henry Perowne's day is about to get worse.
Programme Book List
Novels:
1) Saturday - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 0224072994
2) Atonement - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099429799
3) Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099481243
4) Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099272776
5) Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099277085
6) The Innocent - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099277093
7) The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099755017
8) The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099754916
9) The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099468387
Short Stories:
10) The Short Stories - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 0224042580
11) In Between the Sheets, and Other Stories - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099754711
12) First Love, Last Rites - Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099754819
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