Writing
Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake. Karin Slaughter. Audio, 45 minutes
The crime thriller writer on her new novel False Witness.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
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Ramblings. Screenwriter Kay Mellor at Harewood in Leeds. Audio, 24 minutes
Screenwriter Kay Mellor takes Clare for a ramble at Harewood House in Leeds.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray. Irvine Welsh. Audio, 54 minutes
The writer on drug abuse, Trainspotting and standing up his idol David Bowie.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
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The Essay. New Generation Thinkers, The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far. Audio, 14 minutes
Xine Yao suggests that a poker Chinese face can be a good way of fighting back
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Open Book. Chris Power; Online Dating in Fiction; Postcard from Delhi. Audio, 28 minutes
Chris Power talks about A Lonely Man
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Interview. Stephen King: Are you afraid of the dark? Audio, 23 minutes
Stephen Sackur speaks to the bestselling master of horror writing
- AttributionBBC World Service
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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
- 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
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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
- 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.
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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
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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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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
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In the Studio. Ben Okri. Audio, 30 minutes
In the Studio enters the creative mind of the celebrated Nigerian poet Ben Okri.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Open Book. Caleb Azumah Nelson, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Black Britain: Writing Back. Audio, 28 minutes
Johny Pitts talks to Caleb Azumah Nelson about Open Water, his hotly anticipated debut.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Stark Talk. Phyllida Law. Audio, 30 minutes
Edi talks to the Scottish born actress who started writing in her late seventies.
- AttributionBBC Radio Scotland
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Open Country. Julia Blackburn and the Suffolk coast. Audio, 24 minutes
Helen Mark talks to the writer Julia Blackburn about her love of the Suffolk coastline.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Open Book. Kate Mosse, Books on TV, Writing in prisons. Audio, 28 minutes
Elizabeth Day talks to Kate Mosse about her new book The City of Tears.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Profile. Russell T Davies. Audio, 14 minutes
Mark Coles on the life of the screenwriter behind some of the most popular TV series.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
