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The Book Café: 12/03/2012

12/03/2012

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David Hayman talks about performing Philip Larkin's jazz-inspired poetry and prose.

David Hayman, star of TV's Trial and Retribution, talks about performing Philip Larkin's jazz-inspired writing at the Stanza poetry festival.

Star of ITV's Trial and Retribution David Hayman looks ahead to performing Philip Larkin's jazz-inspired writing at this year's StAnza poetry festival- and discusses returning to Glasgow's Citizens Theatre, thirty-three years after he started his career there, to play King Lear.

With novels Submarine and Wild Abandon Joe Dunthorne has been making quite a name for himself as a fresh voice in fiction- but as he gears up for his events at StAnza, he joins us to explain why it's only when he writes poetry that he really feels free to take risks with his writing.

We meet 21 year old Nigerian writer Chibundu Onouzo, the youngest woman ever to sign a two-book deal with Faber and Faber.

And Alex Gray will explain why she, and fellow crime authors, decided to set up the newest addition to Scotland's roster of literary festivals: the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival. So what took them so long?

Producer: Serena Field.

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