Literature
- Attribution
- 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
- Attribution
- 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
The Five-Foot Shelf. Audio, 28 minutes
Ian Sansom asks readers to nominate books that have helped them through 2020.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Being Bridget Jones. Video, 59 minutes
Helen Fielding tells the story of how Bridget Jones’s Diary came to be.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 6 months
- Attribution
- Posted21 December 2020
The Interview. Bernardine Evaristo: Is British culture changing? Audio, 23 minutes
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted14 December 2020
- Attribution
- Posted14 December 2020
- Attribution
- Posted9 December 2020
Witness History. The life and work of Chester Himes. Audio, 9 minutes
The African-American crime writer Chester Himes first found widespread success in France
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted6 December 2020
Short Cuts. Readers. Audio, 28 minutes
Letters and books which reach unexpected readers. With Josie Long.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
