Time and Time Travel with Emily St. John Mandel, Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger

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Johny Pitts presents a special edition of Open Book exploring time and time travel. He talks to Emily St. John Mandel, author of the prescient Station Eleven, about her latest novel Sea of Tranquility, which spans past, present and an eerily familiar future. Joining them to discuss how literature has changed our understanding of time is theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger, the writer behind bestselling The Time Traveler's Wife. Is scientific fact stranger than science fiction? Producer: Ciaran Bermingham Book List - Sunday 19 June and Thursday 23 June 2022 Sea of Tranquillity by Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin The Door in the Wall by H G Wells Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon Monkey by Wu Ch’êng-ên: Translated by Arthur Waley The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu