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The Book Café: 23/07/2012

Edi Stark

23/07/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 23/07/2012

Fay Weldon talks about her new novel, plus Edi Stark discusses erotic fiction for women.

Fay Weldon, who penned the pilot episode of the 1970s hit series Upstairs Downstairs, explains why she's grown tired of charting modern life and has gone right back to her beginnings as a writer with the saga of a rich London family in crisis at the close of the nineteenth century. 

Kirsty Gunn's new novel, The Big Music, uses the form of the piobaireachd, the classical music of the Highland bagpipes, to tell a tale about family, music and inheritance in the north-east of Scotland. The daughter of a bagpipe- player, she joins Edi to discuss how this strong, emotional music shaped her impressive story of love and regret.

Erotic fiction for women: as the sales figures start to tail off for EL James's explicit best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey, Edi and Fay Weldon discuss what readers' brief infatuation with this until-now niche sexual interest tells us about how we find and consume fiction in the social networking age- and whether it is anything more significant or troubling than simply a gripping read.

Producer: Serena Field.

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