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Front Row

Nancy Meyers, Jenny Erpenbeck, Literary modern classics, Turner Prize show

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Romcom director and writer Nancy Meyers; Jenny Erpenbeck on her new novel Go, Went, Gone; what makes a literary modern classic; the 2017 Turner Prize exhibition in Hull. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Nancy Meyers
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Hennessey
Interviewed Guest:
Suzi Feay
Interviewed Guest:
Jenny Erpenbeck
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Jones
Presenter:
Kirsty Lang

Free Thinking

Outsiders and Colin Wilson, The Vulgar, Norse Sagas

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet presents. With a discussion on Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation, an exhibition about fashion at London's Barbican and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on Norse gods. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Gary Lachman
Interviewed Guest:
Suzi Feay
Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Linda Grant
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Kent
Interviewed Guest:
Eleanor Barraclough

Open Book

The Story, edited by Victoria Hislop; scientist-author collaboration; Man Booker Prize

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

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

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Victoria Hislop
Producer:
Andrea Kidd
Interviewed Guest:
Suzi Feay
Interviewed Guest:
Tara Shears
Interviewed Guest:
Sara Maitland

Open Book

Robert Macfarlane on his new book Landmarks

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Presented by Mariella Frostrup. Travel and nature writer Robert Macfarlane discusses the relationship between language and landscape, the subject of his latest book, Landmarks. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Robert Macfarlane
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Bannan
Interviewed Guest:
Suzi Feay
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Hodgson

Open Book

Rachel Johnson and Sean Michaels

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Award-winning Canadian novelist Sean Michaels talks to Mariella Frostrup about his book Us Conductors, the story of the inventor of the theremin. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Sean Michaels
Interviewed Guest:
Rachel Johnson
Interviewed Guest:
Michelle Miller
Interviewed Guest:
Suzi Feay

Front Row

Decline and Fall; Adrian Mole turns 50; Hollie McNish

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

As a new TV adaptation is aired, Front Row discusses Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall; Adrian Mole at 50 - a look at his poetry; Hollie McNish on her play about women in football. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
James Wood
Interviewed Guest:
Suzi Feay
Interviewed Guest:
Daljit Nagra
Interviewed Guest:
Hollie McNish
Interviewed Guest:
Javier Pes
Presenter:
Stig Abell