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
10 August 2008
Owen Sheers, presenter of this week's Open Book, on location in New York. Photo courtesy of Thomas Morris.
Meg Wolitzer Owen Sheers talks to Meg Wolitzer, author of The Position, about her new novel. The Ten Year Nap is set in Manhattan and looks at the dilemma faced by four mothers who, ten years after the birth of their children, are uncertain whether to return to work.
Meg Wolitzer explains why she's interested in the plight of the generation that followed the groundbreaking feminists of the 70s.
The Ten Year Nap – Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Chatto and Windus
The Position – Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Vintage
The Wife - Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Vintage
Surrender, Dorothy - Meg Wolitzer Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Treasures of the Morgan Library Owen visits the home of some of the world's most fabulous literary treasures. The Morgan Library was founded by one of America's most successful financiers and houses many thousands of valuable books and manuscripts.
Declan Kiely, the Library's Curator of Manuscripts, shows Owen some of the most interesting, including the only surviving autographs of works by Jane Austen and Milton.
E-Books on Trial As the Sony Reader is launched in the UK, Open Book looks at how it and another electronic book device, Amazon's Kindle, has gone down in the US.
Owen is joined by Gage McWeeny and June Thomas to discuss the pros and cons of the two gadgets, and whether e-books are likely to catch on in the UK.
