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 17th June
Booker Prize winner, Penelope Lively, talks about her life as a novelist.
Penelope Lively
In a special programme, Mariella talks to novelist Penelope Lively about her life as a writer. Now 74, Penelope Lively describes her latest book Consequences as her romantic novel, one she has always wanted to write. She talks about her aunt, the acclaimed wood engraver Rachel Reckitt, who inspired one of her characters, about why she no longer writes children's books despite her lifelong fascination with and love for children and why she always finds it difficult to explain what she actually does as a novelist and why it counts as a 'proper' job.
Consequences – Penelope Lively Publisher: Fig Tree
Making it Up – Penelope Lively Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
