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Start the Week

Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe talks to novelist Margaret Atwood, theatre director Vicky Featherstone and philosopher AC Grayling. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Vicky Featherstone
Interviewed Guest:
AC Grayling
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Start the Week

The Tempest Reimagined, with Margaret Atwood and Harriet Walter

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Andrew Marr discusses Shakespeare and Caravaggio with the writer Margaret Atwood, actor Harriet Walter, curator Letizia Treves and biographer Richard Holmes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Harriet Walter
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Holmes
Interviewed Guest:
Letizia Treves
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Open Book

Sebastian Barry; Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman; Helen Dunmore on Louis MacNeice; literary news from Sri Lanka

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

News and features from the world of books, presented by Mariella Frostrup. Sebastian Barry on his new novel Days Without End. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Alderman
Interviewed Guest:
Sebastian Barry
Producer:
Kirsten Locke

Front Row

Margaret Atwood, Emily Blunt, You, Me and the Apocalypse, Reading Europe

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Margaret Atwood on her new novel, Emily Blunt on playing an FBI agent, TV satire You, Me and the Apocalypse, and German author Sascha Arango. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Emily Blunt
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Haynes
Interviewed Guest:
Sascha Arango

Front Row

Margaret Atwood, Paco Peña, Obvious Child, Folkestone Triennial

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Margaret Atwood discusses her new short story collection Stone Mattress; Paco Peña on the musical legacy of Lorca; new film Obvious Child; art from the Folkestone Triennial. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Paco Pena
Interviewed Guest:
Shahidha Bari
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Sailstorfer

Front Row

Margaret Atwood on her first opera, Neel Mukherjee and Quirke

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Novelist Margaret Atwood on the premiere on her first opera, the Glasgow fire, Neel Mukherjee discusses his novel The Lives of Others, and the director of new film Heli. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Ranald McInnes
Interviewed Guest:
Neel Mukherjee
Interviewed Guest:
Amat Escalante
Interviewed Guest:
Jake Arnott

Saturday Live

Restaurateur Rick Stein

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Richard Coles and Anita Anand with chef/restaurateur Rick Stein, Margaret Atwood's Inheritance Tracks, and traveller Tim Cope's tales of his journey on the trail of Genghis Khan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles
Presenter:
Anita Anand
Interviewed Guest:
Rick Stein
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Cope
Interviewed Guest:
Guy Tarrant
Interviewed Guest:
Steve Rodgers
Interviewed Guest:
Fynnjan Leach-Verhoeven
Producer:
Harry Parker

When Mary Beard Met...

Margaret Atwood

Duration: 39 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC News Asia Pacific

Available for years

Mary Beard talks to novelist Margaret Atwood about her career and her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mary Beard
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Director:
Alex Harding
Executive Producer:
Tanya Hudson
Series Producer:
Mark Crossan

Free Thinking

Sound Frontiers: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Authors Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman are in conversation with Philip Dodd as part of a week of broadcasts marking the 2016 London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Alderman
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Free Thinking

Northern Lights: Crime Fiction and Cold Settings

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Margaret Atwood, Arnaldur Indriadason and MJ McGrath discuss crime fiction and cold. Plus a discussion reflecting on 100 years since Freud's seminal paper The Unconscious. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Arnaldur Indriason
Interviewed Guest:
Melanie McGrath
Interviewed Guest:
Shahidha Bari
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Vernon
Interviewed Guest:
Suzanne O'Sullivan
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Paxton
Producer:
Luke Mulhall

Free Thinking

Margaret Atwood, Yuval Harari, Celts

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Rana Mitter presents. With Margaret Atwood on her new novel, Professor Yuval Harari exploring the history of mankind and a review of a British Museum exhibition about Celts. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Atwood
Interviewed Guest:
Yuval Noah Harari
Interviewed Guest:
Barry Cunliffe
Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
Janina Ramirez

Night Waves

Margaret Atwood

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Anne McElvoy is joined by celebrated Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood. Her latest novel MaddAddam completes her dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake. Show more

Free Thinking

Margaret Atwood

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Novelist Margaret Atwood talks to Anne McElvoy. They discuss her science fiction trilogy and depicting a changing world, as wellas how digital technology is altering publishing. Show more