Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 282,291 playable programmes from the BBC

Talking Books: Hay Festival 2017

Sebastian Barry

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS North America

BBC News Arts Correspondent Rebecca Jones meets Sebastian Barry at Hay Festival to hear about his distinguished writing career and latest novel, 'Days Without End', winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2016. Teenaged Tom McNulty has fled brutal poverty in Ireland for America, later enlisting to fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. This dramatic and lyrical tale has won rave reviews. Barry's fine body of historical fiction has roots in the stories passed down the generations of families in Ireland. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More