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Meet the Author

Geoff Dyer

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC NewsLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

Jim Naughtie talks to Geoff Dyer about travel writing and what inspires people to go to certain places. He also discusses the re-issue of his book The Missing of the Somme. Show more

Night Waves

Gloriana, Porn, Lowry, New Generation Thinker Sarah Peverley

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd reviews the new production of Britten's Gloriana at the ROH, talks to TJ Clarke about Lowry and asks whether it is possible to be morally neutral about pornography. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Participant:
Julie Bindel
Participant:
Feona Attwood
Participant:
Geoff Dyer
Participant:
Sarah Peverley
Participant:
TJ Clark
Participant:
Susan Hitch

Front Row

Jimmy's Hall; Leonard Cohen biography

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Jimmy's Hall reviewed; three fictional US TV characters take on the British Royal family; Liel Leibovitz on Leonard Cohen; Geoff Dyer on writing aboard a US naval vessel. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Liel Leibovitz
Interviewed Guest:
Geoff Dyer
Interviewed Guest:
Robbie Collin
Interviewed Guest:
Tara Gadomski

Book of the Week

White Sands

Episode 1: Pilgrimage

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Writer Geoff Dyer is in Los Angeles and makes a pilgrimage to the house of an intellectual hero. Show more

Book of the Week

White Sands

Episode 2: Space in Time and Time in Space

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Geoff Dyer vividly recreates his experiences of visiting two iconic land art installations in America, Spiral Jetty in Utah and The Lightning Field in New Mexico. Show more

Book of the Week

White Sands

Episode 3: Northern Dark

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Geoff Dyer and his wife make a pilgrimage to see the Northern Lights in Norway and find the experience to be not quite as enlightening as they had hoped. Show more

Book of the Week

White Sands

Episode 4: The Hitchhiker

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Geoff Dyer describes how he stops to pick up a hitchhiker on the road to El Paso. All goes well, and the hitchhiker proves to be good company, until they pass a large road sign. Show more

Book of the Week

White Sands

Episode 5: Beginning

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Geoff Dyer is back in Los Angeles, but an episode in hospital provokes a more internal journey. Show more

The Review Show

10/02/2012

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

In a Book Review Show special celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth, Kirsty Wark and guests discuss Simon Callow's new biography of the great author. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Wark
Participant:
John Carey
Participant:
Geoff Dyer
Participant:
Kate Mosse

The Culture Show

2010/2011

Episode 3

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Andrew Graham-Dixon discovers the history of gargoyles at Westminster Abbey and travels to Llandudno, Wales for a preview of the new Mostyn Gallery. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Miranda Sawyer
Presenter:
Geoff Dyer
Presenter:
Mark Kermode
Presenter:
Michael Smith
Presenter:
Sarfraz Manzoor
Producer:
Emily Kennedy
Producer:
Emma Cahusac
Executive Producer:
Janet Lee
Production Manager:
Emma Fowler

The Culture Show

DH Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame: A Culture Show Special

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Writer Geoff Dyer and scholar Catherine Brown explore DH Lawrence's influence on the 20th century, 100 years since the publication of his revolutionary novel Sons and Lovers. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoff Dyer
Presenter:
Catherine Brown
Participant:
Simon Armitage
Participant:
Rachel Cusk
Participant:
John Worthen
Series Editor:
Janet Lee

The Culture Show

DH Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News Latin AmericaLatest broadcast: on BBC News Europe

Writer Geoff Dyer and scholar Catherine Brown explore DH Lawrence's influence on the 20th century, 100 years since the publication of his revolutionary novel Sons and Lovers. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoff Dyer
Presenter:
Catherine Brown
Participant:
Simon Armitage
Participant:
Rachel Cusk
Participant:
John Worthen
Series Editor:
Janet Lee

The Culture Show

2011/2012

Episode 20

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Arts magazine show. Andrew Graham-Dixon visits the new Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Mark Kermode talks movies with author Geoff Dyer. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Geoff Dyer
Interviewed Guest:
Emeli Sande
Interviewed Guest:
Zach Braff
Series Editor:
Janet Lee
Series Producer:
Emma Cahusac
Participant:
Mark Kermode
Participant:
Miranda Sawyer
Participant:
Charlie Luxton
Participant:
Alastair Sooke
Participant:
Aleks Krotoski

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

As Georgia O'Keeffe images of New Mexico go on display at Tate Modern, Matthew Sweet discusses deserts with writers Geoff Dyer and Laurence Scott and curator Tanya Barson. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Geoff Dyer
Interviewed Guest:
Laurence Scott

Free Thinking

Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet discusses Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker and its resonances with the accident that struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in 1986. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Sophie Fiennes
Interviewed Guest:
Konstantin von Eggert
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Geoff Dyer
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas Rush-Cooper
Producer:
Laura Thomas

Free Thinking

Jonathan Sacks, Milan Kundera Novel, Stephen Adly Guirgis Play

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

With Philip Dodd. Includes Lord Jonathan Sacks on confronting religious violence, a review of Milan Kundera's new novel and Stephen Adly Guirgis's new play at the National Theatre. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Sacks
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Geoff Dyer
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Crompton
Producer:
Craig Smith