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Open Book

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

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

Kevin Barry

Mike Parker

Philip Hoare

Molly Flatt

Open Book: Kevin Barry on his new novel, and we discuss queer nature writing

Kevin Barry on his new novel, and we discuss queer nature writing

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Kevin Barry on his new novel, and we discuss queer nature writing

Irish writer Kevin Barry, plus Philip Hoare and Mike Parker on queer nature writing.

Kevin Barry on his new novel Night Boat to Tangier; Philip Hoare and Mike Parker explore queer nature writing.

Irish author Kevin Barry, winner of the Impac Award and the Goldsmiths Prize, discusses his new novel Night Boat to Tangier, a dark comedy billed as Waiting For Godot meets In Bruges.

Novelist and journalist Molly Flatt, who writes about culture and technology for the Bookseller, discusses a growing trend for book versions of successful podcasts.

25 years since the death of Derek Jarman, Mariella is joined by writers Philip Hoare and Mike Parker to explore queer nature writing, a genre concerned with the push and pull of the natural world, from a queer perspective.

Producer: Jack Soper
Editor: Di Speirs

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