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
28 December 2008 and 1st January 2009
Martin Amis, who talks to Mariella Frostrup about writing about his relationship with his father, Kingsley Amis
Families are often called upon as material for novelists. What happens when authors write non-fiction about their families? What are the downfalls? And is there material in family relationships that cannot be found anywhere else? Mariella is joined by writers Martin Amis, Horatio Clare and Gillian Slovo, and professor of English literature John Mullan to discuss the highs and lows of the art of family memoir.
