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15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Elif Shafak visits a bookstore in Istanbul to understand whether modern Turkey can be experienced through its shelves. Show more
43 minutes
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Amol Rajan discusses Turkey with Elif Shafak, Kaya Genç, Fadi Hakura and Bettany Hughes. Show more
28 minutes
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News and features from the world of books, presented by Mariella Frostrup. Authors Salman Rushdie and Elif Shafak pay tribute to writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Show more
28 minutes
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News and features from the world of books, presented by Mariella Frostrup. SJ Watson, best-selling author of Before I Go to Sleep, discusses his new novel Second Life. Show more
45 minutes
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Shakespeare meets Blackadder in Upstart Crow, Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe Theatre, Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, Louise Erdrich's novel LaRose, and artist Mona Hatoum. Show more
45 minutes
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Mr Burns at The Almeida, Tate Britain's Folk Art, British film Belle explores racial attitudes in 18th-century aristocracy, Zia Haider Rahman's novel In the Light of What we Know. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Former MI5 boss, Eliza Manningham-Buller and author Elif Shafak discuss their book choices with Harriett Gilbert. From 2014. Show more
30 minutes
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Made In Dagenham, the stage-musical starring Gemma Arterton, reviewed; Elif Shafak on her new novel; Gold, at Buckingham Palace; can comic books be both mainstream and subversive? Show more
30 minutes
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Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Sacha Baron Cohen's new film Grimsby reviewed and Shakespeare's Globe's outgoing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole. Show more
30 minutes
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Carleen Anderson discusses her album and stage show Cage Street Memorial, Turkish writer Elif Shafak on her controversial novel The Bastard of Istanbul and the commuter on film. Show more
30 minutes
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Author Elif Shafak reviews a new film about the poet Neruda, Batman to Broadchurch - the challenge of casting on screen, Magnus Mills on his new novel The Forensic Records Society. Show more
45 minutes
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Rose Tremain's The American Lover; Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game; Roy Williams' Wildefire; Allen Jones exhibition at RSA; Remember Me on BBC1. Show more
28 minutes
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Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her novel The Forty Rules of Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers. Show more
58 minutes
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Jenni Murray hears about the women working behind the scenes in the music industry. And what progress are the Tories making to find women candidates to field at the next election? Show more
30 minutes
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Samira Ahmed reveals the shortlist for 2016's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and as part of our Shakespeare's People series, Adrian Lester chooses Othello. Show more
58 minutes
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Jenny Eclair and Viv Groskop on New Year resolutions. Visiting a Rape Crisis centre. Caring for an ex-partner in ill health. Everlasting menopause. Judith Tebbutt. Elif Shafak. Show more
45 minutes
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Megan Mullally talks about playing Karen in the return of Will and Grace, and her musical collaboration Nancy and Beth. Four Janes discuss names, and what impact has Girls had? Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Matthew Sweet is joined by Edith Hall, Chris Kissane, Elif Shafak and Alan Mendoza to consider what might be on a reading list to prepare for a post-Brexit world. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Presented by Philip Dodd. With Indian writer Pankaj Mishra discussing anger and Elif Shafak talking about her latest novel, plus Douglas Murray and Julius Krein. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Rana Mitter explores links between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world with Jerry Brotton and Elif Shafak. Plus John Breuilly on nationalism, and author Gillian Slovo. Show more
