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Saturday Review

Sweet Country, High Society at Rijksmuseum, Macbeth at National, Wendy Cope, David Byrne

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Australian film Sweet Country, High Society in Amsterdam, Rory Kinnear and Anne Marie Duff in Macbeth, Wendy Cope's Anecdotal Evidence and David Byrne's latest release. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Eyre
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Haynes
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Start the Week

Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses the epic in the everyday with Kate Tempest, Tracy Chevalier, Hanif Kureishi and Lewis Hyde. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
Kae Tempest
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Hanif Kureishi
Interviewed Guest:
Lewis Hyde
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Talking Books

Series 3

Episode 1: Tracy Chevalier

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC NewsLatest broadcast: on BBC News

Bestselling historical novelist Tracy Chevalier talks to Gavin Esler about why hands-on research is vital to her as a writer. Why does she want to bring the past to life?

Woman's Hour

Valerie Trierweiler; Tracy Chevalier on Laura Ingalls Wilder; Hillary Clinton and the White House

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Valerie Trierweiler on her very public break-up with President Francois Hollande, and author Tracy Chevalier on the enduring popularity of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Valerie Trierweiler
Interviewed Guest:
Sue Carroll
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Nancy Tystad Koupal

Front Row

Nature as artistic inspiration - live from Epping Forest, Loch Lomond and Helen's Bay

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Tracy Chevalier, Brian Irvine and Kenneth Steven on how the British landscape has inspired so many artists as well as work of their own. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Gayle Chong Kwan
Interviewed Guest:
Brian Irvine
Interviewed Guest:
Marie-Louise Muir
Interviewed Guest:
Kenneth Steven
Interviewed Guest:
Hannah McGill
Producer:
Hannah Robins

Talking Books

Tracy Chevalier

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS North AmericaLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS Europe

Bestselling historical novelist Tracy Chevalier talks to Gavin Esler about why hands-on research is vital to her as a writer. Why does she want to bring the past to life? Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewer:
Gavin Esler

Saturday Review

Still Alice, Game, Nurse, David Vann, Forensics

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Julianne Moore's Oscar-winning performance in Still Alice, Mike Bartlett's Game at The Almeida, Paul Whitehouse in Nurse on BBC2, David Vann's novel Aquarium, Forensics exhibition. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine O'Flynn
Interviewed Guest:
Craig Raine
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Great Lives

Tracy Chevalier on Mary Anning

Duration: 1 minute

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

Available for over a year

4 Extra Debut. Novelist Tracy Chevalier chooses the Dorset Jurassic Coast fossil hunter, Mary Anning. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Hugh Torrens
Producer:
Maggie Ayre

Saturday Review

Blade Runner 2049, Labour of Love, Eight Ghosts, Ghosts: A Cultural History, Timewasters, 140 Years of Recorded Sound

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Blade Runner 2049, James Graham's play Labour of Love, Eight Ghosts and Ghosts: A Cultural History, Timewasters on ITV, British Library's exhibition 140 Years of Recorded Sound. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Charlotte Mendelson
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Frayling
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Hamlet, Sensorium, 45 Years, Les Murray, Ascent of Woman

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet, Sensorium at Tate Britain, Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years, Australian poet Les Murray's new collection, BBC TV's Ascent of Woman. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Rawsthorn
Interviewed Guest:
Kathryn Hughes
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Duration: 1 hour, 32 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Drama in which a young maid (Scarlett Johansson), employed by artist Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth), charms him to the point where he feels compelled to paint her portrait. Show more

Contributors

Johannes Vermeer:
Colin Firth
Pieter Van Ruijven:
Tom Wilkinson
Maria Thins:
Judy Parfitt
Catharina Bolnes Vermeer:
Essie Davis
Cornelia Vermeer:
Alakina Mann
Griet's Father:
Chris McHallem
Griet's Mother:
Gabrielle Reidy
Director:
Peter Webber
Producer:
Andy Paterson
Producer:
Anand Tucker
Director of photography:
Eduardo Serra

Front Row

Christos Tsiolkas, Tim's Vermeer, Maxim Vengerov, new US TV cop dramas

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Christos Tsiolkas, author of the Man Booker-longlisted The Slap, discusses his new novel Barracuda; new film Tim's Vermeer; violinist Maxim Vengerov; and two new US TV cop shows. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:
Christos Tsiolkas
Interviewed Guest:
Maxim Vengerov
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Jeff Park

Front Row

From Hay: Charlotte Church, Tracy Chevalier and Lionel Shriver, YA Fiction, Welsh-Appalachian Music Mashup

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Live from Hay, Charlotte Church on her 'musical fairy tale', Tracy Chevalier and Lionel Shriver on Jane Eyre, popularity of YA fiction, and a Welsh-Appalachian music mashup. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Charlotte Church
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Juno Dawson
Interviewed Guest:
Patrick Ness
Interviewed Guest:
Holly Smale
Interviewed Guest:
Frank Hennessy
Interviewed Guest:
Iolo Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Rebecca Branson Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Trevor McKenzie

Front Row

Amy Adams, John Rutter and Tracy Chevalier

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

American actress Amy Adams on communicating with aliens in new sci-fi film Arrival, composer and conductor John Rutter, and Tracy Chevalier on finally reading The Secret Garden. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Amy Adams
Interviewed Guest:
John Rutter
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline McCormick
Presenter:
John Wilson

A Good Read

Niall Ferguson & Tracy Chevalier

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Niall Ferguson, Tracy Chevalier and Harriett Gilbert choose books by Muriel Spark, Robert Louis Stevenson and Irène Némirovsky. From 2015. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Niall Ferguson
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Producer:
Sally Heaven

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Professor Angela Davis, the enduring appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and is there a place for men in the feminist movement? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Angela Davis
Interviewed Guest:
undefined Namvula
Interviewed Guest:
Luci Coffey
Interviewed Guest:
Nancy Tystad Koupal
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Johnson
Interviewed Guest:
Dorothy Elliott
Interviewed Guest:
Nikki van der Gaag
Interviewed Guest:
Karen Ingala Smith

Free Thinking

Neglected Women: Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Charlotte Robinson

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

On International Women's Day, Anne McElvoy and guests including author Tracy Chevalier discuss women neglected in standard histories and what it means to uncover their stories. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Chevalier
Interviewed Guest:
Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Wilkins
Interviewed Guest:
Miranda Garrett
Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Producer:
Luke Mulhall