Books and Authors
Summary: This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. In Open Book, Mariella Frostrup talks to leading authors about their work. A Good Read features Harriett Gilbert discussing a range of favourite titles with guests.
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Podcasts:
Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer prize winning novelist on her latest book The Lowland, mountaineering literature and revamping the classics pulp fiction style.
Glenn Patterson takes Mariella Frostrup around Belfast - the city that has inspired and informed his novels.
Patrick Gales takes Mariella Frostrup around the Cornish landscape that has inspired and informed his novels.
Open Book’s summer series on Literary Landscapes begins at the Haweswater Dam. It’s a charged, vital, visceral landscape – immortalised by writers since Wordsworth first wrote about daffodils. Mariella's literary guide to the area this week is award winning writer Sarah Hall.
Writers Lynne Truss and Diran Adebayo discuss their book choices with Harriett Gilbert. A literary friendship, a piano-playing polecat in Sri Lanka and violent crime in London are the themes of books by Paul Theroux, Michael Ondaatje and Nick Barlay. Produced by Sue Fry.
Mariella Frostrup talks to Grace McCleen about her new novel The Professor of Poetry and on the centenary of her birth, James Runcie celebrates the life and works of Barbara Pym.
Writer, comedian and actor Meera Syal and psychoanalyst and author Stephen Grosz discuss favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. A Russian romance, a very English murder, and the poverty of India are the themes in books by Chekhov, Agatha Christie and Katherine Boo. Produced by Melvin Rickarby
Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross and Countryfile reporter Tom Heap discuss their book choices with Harriett Gilbert, providing an eclectic mix of subject matter from crime thrillers set in Nazi Germany to spiritual life in Scotland and gentile ageing in West London. Produced by Maggie Ayre
Rilla Askew on her latest novel Kind of Kin; Horatio Clare and Justin Cartwright on literature inspired by Summer; and David Mitchell on the book he'd never lend.
Denise Mina talks to Mariella Frostrup about her latest crime novel The Red Road; writers using their jobs as the backdrop to their novels and the WWII heroine Agent Marie.
Children's author Dame Jacqueline Wilson and TV presenter and producer Richard Osman discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Jacqueline Wilson picks, The Orchard on Fire, by Shena MacKay. Richard Osman's choice is Michael Frayn's hilarious Towards the End of the Morning. And Harriett Gilbert selects, Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson. Produced by Melvin Rickarby.
Journalist and writer Owen Jones and novelist Sarah Hall discuss their favourite books with Harriet Gilbert. Owen Jones picks Brother in the Land, by Robert Swindells. Sarah Hall's choice is American writer James Salter's memoir, Burning the Days. And presenter Harriet Gilbert chooses Rogue Male, by Geoffrey Household. Produced by Melvin Rickarby.
Evie Wyld, one of Granta's 2013 best young British novelists, discusses her latest book All the Birds, Singing and we discuss the controversial emerging genre of New Adult
Sports presenter Colin Murray and comedian Bob Mills argue about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Colin Murray's choice is In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. Bob Mills perhaps surprisingly turns out to be a devotee of Georgette Heyer, and nominates These Old Shades. And Harriett Gilbert enthuses over An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. Produced by Beth O'Dea
Neil Gaiman talks to Mariella Frostrup about his hugely popular novels for children and adults alike, from Coraline and Neverwhere to his latest The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
