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Open Book: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Orlando King, Authors and Critics

21/06/2020

Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Orlando King, Authors and Critics

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Orlando King, Authors and Critics

Mariella Frostrup speaks to French writer Jean-Baptiste Andrea.

Mariella Frostrup speaks to French novelist Jean-Baptiste Andrea about his novel One Hundred Million Years and a Day, and Melissa Harrison discusses Orlando King.

Mariella Frostrup talks to French novelist Jean-Baptiste Andrea about his book One Hundred Million Years and a Day. Set in 1954, a palaeontologist embarks on the adventure of his lifetime, exorcising demons from his past by following a lead suggesting that a remarkable dinosaur fossil lies buried under a French glacier. 

Melissa Harrison talks to Mariella about the trilogy of novels written by Isabel Colegate, Orlando King, which stylishly document huge social change in the mid-20th century and have interesting parallels with today. 

And John Self explores the often less than harmonious relationship between authors and their critics.

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