Sunday 16:00-16:30, repeated Thursday 16:00-16:30, except first Sunday in the month when it is replaced by Book Club.
Open Book spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
This week
Sunday 18 September 2005
Leonie Gombrich talks to Mariella Frostrup about Sir Ernst Gombrich's work 'A Little History of the World' which is now available for the first time in English.
Mariella Frostrup talks to Leonie Gombrich, grand-daughter of art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich about his very first book, 'A Little History of the World', which was written to be read aloud to children.
Publisher Jamie Hodder-Williams and Jim White look at the appeal of sporting autobiographies.
Jim Lynch talks about his latest novel 'The Highest Tide' which tells the story of a teenage boy who finds a rare sea creature on America 's north-west coast.
And literary critic Alex Clark and authors Justin Cartwright and Michael Dobbs discuss whether screen adaptations affect the way readers imagine characters.
Booklist
A Little History of the World - E H Gombrich Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300108834
The Story of Art - E H Gombrich Publisher: Phaidon Press ISBN: 0714832472
The Highest Tide - Jim Lynch Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 0747578443
House of Cards - Michael Dobbs Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0006176909
Sporting Autobiographies:
Being Freddie - Andrew Flintoff Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN: 0340896280
Calling the Shots: The Captain's Story - Michael Vaughan Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN: 0340896272
Undefeated - Terry Marsh Publisher: Terry Marsh Publishing ISBN: 0954999908
Martin Johnson Autobiography - Martin Johnson Publisher: Headline Book Publishing Ltd ISBN: 0755311876
My Idea Of Fun: The Autobiography - Lee Sharpe Publisher: Orion ISBN: 0752872060
Giggs: The Autobiography - Ryan Giggs, Joe Lovejoy Publisher: Michael Joseph ISBN: 0718148436
Managing My Life: My Autobiography - Alex Ferguson Publisher: Coronet Books ISBN: 0340728566
Farewell But Not Goodbye - Sir Bobby Robson Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN: 0340823461
Keane: The Autobiography - Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 0141009810
