Literature
- Attribution
- Posted23 March 2021
Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake. Andi Osho. Audio, 45 minutes
The actress, author and comedian tells Nihal about her new novel, Asking For a Friend.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted21 March 2021
HARDtalk. Stephen King: Are you afraid of the dark? Audio, 23 minutes
Stephen Sackur speaks to the bestselling master of horror writing
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Maggie O'Farrell, writer. Audio, 36 minutes
Maggie O'Farrell, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There. Audio, 13 minutes
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in the novel by Inez Holden
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf, There's No Story There. Audio, 14 minutes
Lisa Mullen looks at the depiction of war-time factory workers in a novel by Inez Holden.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer. Audio, 14 minutes
4/5 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf, Closer. Audio, 14 minutes
Diarmuid Hester looks at the George Miles Cycle from punk radical Dennis Cooper.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala. Audio, 13 minutes
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf, Sindhubala. Audio, 14 minutes
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. John Halifax, Gentleman. Audio, 14 minutes
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf, John Halifax, Gentleman. Audio, 14 minutes
Clare Walker Gore explains how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf, The Black Lizard. Audio, 14 minutes
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
World Book Club. Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions. Audio, 49 minutes
Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Shakespeare's Sisters, Fanny Dickens. Audio, 14 minutes
The brilliant women whose success was often eclipsed by their more famous brothers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Word Up! Debora Kayembe, Hannah Lavery talks literature and theatre and the Scottish women dominating social media. Audio, 38 minutes
Vanessa Kanbi and Etienne Kubwabo welcome Debora Kayembe to Word Up!
- AttributionBBC Radio Scotland
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Shakespeare's Sisters, Sarah Fielding. Audio, 14 minutes
Lucy Powell asks why history has forgotten the achievements of novelist Sarah Fielding.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted4 March 2021
The Essay. Rainsong in Five Senses, Paris and the Look of Rain. Audio, 14 minutes
Nandini Das introduces another essay about the global differences in our response to rain.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Rainsong in Five Senses, Japan and the Taste of Rain. Audio, 14 minutes
Nandini Das curates essays from across the globe on five different experiences of rain.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted1 March 2021
- Attribution
- Posted1 March 2021
HARDtalk. Douglas Stuart: Stories of tender souls in tough places. Audio, 23 minutes
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Booker prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
