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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Mariella Frostrup

Jill Paton Walsh

Sarah Crown

Kate Mosse

Andrea Kidd

Open Book: Lord Peter Wimsey, John Freeman, Kate Mosse

15/12/2013

Lord Peter Wimsey, John Freeman, Kate Mosse

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Lord Peter Wimsey, John Freeman, Kate Mosse

Jill Paton Walsh and Sarah Crown talk about the enduring appeal of Lord Peter Wimsey.

Books news. Jill Paton Walsh and Sarah Crown talk to Mariella Frostrup about the enduring appeal of Lord Peter Wimsey, plus author Kate Mosse on the book she would never lend.

The scholarly, monocle wearing second son of a Duke, who solves bizarre murders ably assisted by his manservant Bunter might seem an anomaly among the Wallenders and Rebus's of today's detective fiction but against unlikely odds Lord Peter Wimsey, created by Dorothy L Sayers, continues to delight readers. Despite her death in 1957 her character lives on not least thanks to Jill Paton Walsh who has taken on the task of continuing Wimsey's adventures, beginning with Sayer's unfinished manuscript Thrones, Dominations. She's just published her fourth Peter Wimsey book The Late Scholar and joins Mariella Frostrup and lifelong Sayers' fan, Sarah Crown, to discuss his, and the books', enduring appeal.

We continue our series on the book you would never lend for fear of never getting it back. Today is the turn of the best-selling author and co-founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction Kate Mosse.

For the last fifteen years, John Freeman has had his finger firmly on the literary pulse. Until recently, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Granta, and part of the panel that put together their most recent, much discussed, once a decade list, Best of Young British Novelists. He's reviewed thousands of books and profiled some of the world's most influential writers from Doris Lessing to John Updike. These encounters have now been collected in his latest book How To Read A Novelist.

Producer: Andrea Kidd.

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