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 8 October 2006
Margaret Drabble talks about Bright Day by J B Priestley.
Clive James Journalist, critic, broadcaster, poet - Clive James has had a varied career and in the latest installment of his memoirs, North Face of Soho, he describes his life in the 1970s as he began to make his name in newspapers and on television.
Clive James - North Face of Soho Publisher: Picador ISBN: 0330481282
Clive James - Unreliable Memoirs Publisher: Picador ISBN: 033026463X
Clive James - Falling Towards England Publisher: Picador ISBN: 0330294377
Clive James - May Week Was In June Publisher: Picador ISBN: 0330315226
J B Priestley J B Priestley is now best remembered as a playwright but he was also a prolific novelist - though now his fiction is out of print. As his 1946 novel Bright Day is republished in a special edition, the author Margaret Drabble joins Mariella to talk about Priestley's work, and her memories of him.
J B Priestley - Bright Day Publisher: Great Northern Books ISBN: 1905080182
Literary Festivals As Manchester gets its first ever literature festival and Cheltenham hosts its fifty seventh, Mariella talks to Chris Gribble from Manchester and Sarah Smyth from Cheltenham about how, when there are dozens of book festivals in the UK, they make their events distinctive.
Kate O'Brien Mariella talks to Open Book listener John Osbourne who wrote to us about his memories of Irish novelist Kate O'Brien after hearing our recent profile of her.
Kate O'Brien - The Land of Spices Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844083160
Kate O'Brien - The Ante-Room Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844083179
Kate O'Brien - Without My Cloak Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844083144
Kate O'Brien - Mary Lavelle Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844083152
