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Open Book: David Lodge on his memoir Quite a Good Time to Be Born

David Lodge on his memoir Quite a Good Time to Be Born

25/01/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, David Lodge on his memoir Quite a Good Time to Be Born

Writer David Lodge discusses his new memoir, plus a librarian from the Orkney Library.

Writer David Lodge talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new memoir Quite a Good Time to Be Born, plus a librarian who has put the Orkney Library on the social media map.

David Lodge is a novelist, critic and academic and now - as he approaches his 80th birthday -he's publishing his first memoir, Quite A Good Time To Be Born. He talks to Mariella about his Catholic faith, his long marriage and how his life and novels - which include Changing Places, How Far Can You Go? and The British Museum is Falling Down - have overlapped. 

Stewart Bain of Orkney Library reveals to Mariella how their twitter feed became a social media sensation.

Ted Hogkinson from the British Council is just back from Amman in Jordan and reports on the literary scene and why Petra is inspiring a new generation of writers. And an editor looks beyond her own books pile to recommend a title from another publisher.

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