Programme Index

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Open Book

Margaret Drabble, Louis de Bernieres, Literary prizes, Wyl Menmuir on fictional islands

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup talks to Margaret Drabble about her new novel The Dark Flood Rises. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Drabble
Interviewed Guest:
Wyl Menmuir
Interviewed Guest:
Louis de Bernieres

The Film Programme

James Schamus

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Cinema magazine presented by Francine Stock. Producer, writer, professor and former studio boss James Schamus tells Francine why he took the plunge and directed his first film. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
James Schamus
Interviewed Guest:
Carol Morley

The Fair Intellectual Club

An Encounter with Mr Handel

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 6 months

The scholarly secret society inspires Mr Handel's latest saucy smash hit on Edinburgh's Calton Hill. Stars Gus Brown. From 2016. Show more

Front Row

The Hepworth Prize, New Art Gallery Walsall, Indignation, Don Giovanni

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The winner of the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture; the director of The New Art Gallery Walsall; how Philip Roth's novels translate to the screen; opera director Oliver Mears. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Snoddy
Interviewed Guest:
Oliver Mears
Interviewed Guest:
Leslie Felperin
Interviewed Guest:
Jason Solomons
Presenter:
John Wilson
Producer:
Angie Nehring

In Our Time

Justinian's Legal Code

Duration: 47 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss legal ideas developed under Byzantine emperor Justinian I in the C6th AD, which influenced the evolution of law in much of Western civilisation. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline Humfress
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Corcoran
Interviewed Guest:
Paul du Plessis

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