Presented by Ian Hamilton Ted Allbeury writes spy-fiction. He was, once, a spy.
For Bookmark he journeys to Berlin, West and East, to unravel the web of fact and fiction in his line of business, in the spy capital of the world.
Josef Skvorecky , a witty and original Czech writer, lives in exile in Canada. His new novel, Dvorak in Love, is an ingenious blend of love story and history, set in the America of the 1890s which inspired Dvorak's New World Symphony. In conversation
Skvorecky explains how more and more he is finding contact with his lost Czech heritage in the fascinating lives of earlier Czechs who settled in the States.
Jonathan Raban set out to circumnavigate the British Isles in a sailing boat on the very day the Falklands War began. That journey is chartered in his new book
Coasting. On board, Raban tells Ian Hamilton how the voyage and the conflict merged with memories from his own past to help him define what it means to be
English.
Director Richard SPENCE
PATCHY WHEATLEY. ROLAND KEATING Producer ROGER THOMPSON
Executive producer NIGEL Williams