Literature
Archive on 4. A Writer and His Country - John le Carré Across Six Decades. Audio, 57 minutes
Who was the real John le Carré and what was his relationship with Britain?
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Daughters of the Snow. Audio, 28 minutes
Poet Himali Singh Soin looks to the North Pole and sees a mythologised space in literature
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Sunday Feature. Should Feminists Read Baudelaire? Audio, 44 minutes
Michèle Roberts assesses the reputation of the French poet 200 years after his birth.
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- Posted26 March 2021
The Forum. The One Thousand and One Nights. Audio, 40 minutes
The ancient magical tales whose origins stretch from India to Persia to Arabia
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- 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.
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- Posted21 March 2021
The Interview. Stephen King: Are you afraid of the dark? Audio, 23 minutes
Stephen Sackur speaks to the bestselling master of horror writing
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Desert Island Discs. Maggie O'Farrell, writer. Audio, 36 minutes
Maggie O'Farrell, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The Essay. John Halifax, Gentleman. Audio, 14 minutes
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations
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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.
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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.
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World Book Club. Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions. Audio, 49 minutes
Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions
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The Essay. Shakespeare's Sisters, Fanny Dickens. Audio, 14 minutes
The brilliant women whose success was often eclipsed by their more famous brothers.
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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!
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The Essay. Shakespeare's Sisters, Sarah Fielding. Audio, 14 minutes
Lucy Powell asks why history has forgotten the achievements of novelist Sarah Fielding.
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- Posted4 March 2021
