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Featuring theatre productions Coriolanus and Leaving Planet Earth, new film Elysium, Peter Doig exhibition, and choices from the Fringe. Show more
28 minutes
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Taiye Selasi discusses her debut Ghana Must Go, Gillian Cross on After Tomorrow and dystopian futures for children, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the novel behind the famous opera. Show more
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Rilla Askew talks about her novel Kind of Kin with Mariella Frostrup, summer in literature with Horatio Clare and Justin Cartwright, and David Mitchell on the book he'd never lend. Show more
28 minutes
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Mariella Frostrup talks to Grace McCleen about her new novel The Professor of Poetry and, on the centenary of her birth, James Runcie celebrates the life and work of Barbara Pym. Show more
28 minutes
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Jo Nesbo on his new Harry Hole thriller Police, we go in search of buried gems as Mariella Frostrup discusses pirate literature, and Frank Tallis on the book he'd never lend. Show more
28 minutes
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Philip Pullman discusses the great Soviet children's classics of the 1920s and 30s, Jung Chang on Empress Dowager Cixi, and Alexander McCall Smith on the book he would never lend. Show more
28 minutes
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Scott Turow talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new thriller Identical; Paul Bailey and Manda Scott on gay literature; Charlie Hill on fiction that's bad for your health. Show more
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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. Show more
28 minutes
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Mariella Frostrup presents a Children's Laureate special. Malorie Blackman, Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen discuss the role of the Children's Laureate. Show more
28 minutes
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Tobias Hill talks to Mariella Frostrup about his novel What Was Promised, and a look at the works of Stefan Zweig, who inspired Wes Anderson's new film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Show more
28 minutes
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Evie Wyld, one of Granta's 2013 best young British novelists, discusses her book All the Birds, Singing. Mariella Frostrup discusses the controversial emerging genre of New Adult. Show more
28 minutes
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Victoria Hislop has edited a new anthology of women's short stories called The Story. From Helen Simpson to Angela Carter, she explains how she chose her 100 favourites. Show more
28 minutes
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Margaret Drabble talks about her latest novel; Sebastian Faulks and Helen Dunmore on WWI novels; and Dedicated to... the wonderful things people write in books to their loved ones. Show more
28 minutes
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David Vann and Stuart Kelly on Norse myths, Penelope Lively on where she writes, and Suzanne Berne talks about her novel The Dogs of Littlefield. With Mariella Frostrup. Show more
28 minutes
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Deborah Levy revisits her early work; Kapka Kassabova and Miroslav Penkov discuss Bulgarian literature; and the literary pick of publisher Jamie Byng. Show more
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Ellah Allfrey talks to Sally Beauman about her latest novel The Visitors, and Darragh McKeon and Hamid Ismailov discuss the environmental legacy of the Cold War on their novels. Show more
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Harlan Coben talks about his new thriller novel Six Years, plus a report from the London Book Fair, and Rodge Glass takes a wry literary look at the impact of cheap flights. Show more
28 minutes
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With the world looking to Brazil for 2014 football and the 2016 Olympics, Mariella Frostrup explores its vast literary scene. Plus Sathnam Sanghera on his novel Marriage Material. Show more
28 minutes
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Conn Iggulden on Stormbird, the first in his new series set during The Wars of the Roses; Horatio Clare and Susie Boyt discuss Autumn in literature; and the best of non-fiction. Show more
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Column McCann on his novel TransAtlantic which explores the relationship between Ireland and the USA, plus mental health and fiction, and more weird things people say in bookshops. Show more
