Literature
World Book Club. Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was. Audio, 50 minutes
Sjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Becoming Animal, Toby Litt. Audio, 14 minutes
Writer Toby Litt is inspired by the world of the brown hare.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Becoming Animal, Ned Beauman. Audio, 14 minutes
Writer Ned Beauman explores the world of the Devon beaver.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted23 February 2021
The Essay. Becoming Animal, Belinda Zhawi. Audio, 14 minutes
Writer and sound artist Belinda Zhawi imagines life as a southern African plains Zebra.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Becoming Animal, Isabel Galleymore. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Isabel Galleymore imagines herself as a limpet.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted17 February 2021
Laura Whitmore: Under the Spotlight. Marian Keyes. Audio, 23 minutes
Best-selling Irish novelist Marian Keyes chats imposter syndrome, real life + body image.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. New Thinking: Eco-Criticism. Audio, 44 minutes
Exploring the points where literature and ecological thinking meet
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted31 January 2021
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- Posted28 January 2021
The Essay. Odes to Essex, The Refusal of Place. Audio, 14 minutes
Writer Lavinia Greenlaw takes us back to the formative landscape of her childhood.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted26 January 2021
Max: The Literary Kingmaker. Audio, 28 minutes
Lennie Goodings on the skills of the editor who nurtured Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted21 January 2021
Witness History. Kenya's pioneering publisher. Audio, 9 minutes
Dr Henry Chakava made it his life's mission to publish in African languages.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. The Apple and the Tree. Audio, 44 minutes
Carlo Gébler asks why the children of writers often become writers themselves.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted16 January 2021
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- Posted6 January 2021
Lady Chatterley's Bed Bugs. Audio, 28 minutes
How the fascinating and disgusting lives of insects inspired modernist writers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sci-Fi Blindness. Audio, 28 minutes
Peter White explores science fiction's enduring interest in blindness.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
