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Saturday Review

Oppenheimer, A Most Violent Year, Fortitude, Rubens, Sandip Roy

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Cultural highlights: RSC's Oppenheimer, A Most Violent Year, TV series Fortitude, Rubens and His Legacy exhibition at the Royal Academy, and Sandip Roy's novel Dont Let Him Know. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Sophie Hannah
Interviewed Guest:
Francis Spufford
Producer:
Oliver Jones

The Review Show

27/05/2011

Duration: 50 minutes

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

Kirsty Wark is joined by guests including Germaine Greer and John Mullan to discuss the state of women's literature in the first ever Book Review Show, a monthly survey of writing. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Wark
Participant:
Germaine Greer
Participant:
John Mullan
Participant:
Lionel Shriver

HARDtalk

Lionel Shriver, Writer

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News ChannelLatest broadcast: on BBC Parliament

Available for years

Lionel Shriver has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and voluntary euthanasia. She’s a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the West’s culture wars? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver

Genres

Saturday Review

Menashe, Parliament Square, Carmen Maria Machado, Winnie The Pooh, Marvelous Mrs Maisel

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Yiddish film Menashe, Parliament Square at The Bush Theatre, Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties, Winnie The Pooh exhibition at The V&A and Marvelous Mrs Maisel. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Bridget Kendall
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Arditti
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Front Row

Front Row 20th Anniversary

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Liz Carr, Bob Geldof, Lionel Shriver and Testament each make a case for the most significant artwork created during Front Row's first two decades on air. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Liz Carr
Interviewed Guest:
Bob Geldof
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Testament
Interviewed Guest:
Neil MacGregor
Interviewed Guest:
Rae Morris
Interviewed Guest:
Caleb Femi
Interviewed Guest:
Liv Little
Interviewed Guest:
Mary Beard
Performer:
Kate Fox
Performer:
Rae Morris
Producer:
Hannah Robins

Free Thinking

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Episode 3: The Population Bomb

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

The Population Bomb: Danny Dorling and Stephen Emmott join Lionel Shriver to look at the warnings of a 1968 book and whether we should heed its view of an overpopulated planet. Show more

Free Thinking

Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty.

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Salman Rushdie talks fiction and US politics with Shahidha Bari plus a discussion of certainty as Marianne Elliott directs Simon Stephens' 'Heisenberg The Uncertainty Principle'. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Shahidha Bari
Interviewed Guest:
Salman Rushdie
Interviewed Guest:
Marcus Chown
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Rachel Hewitt
Producer:
Zahid Warley
Producer:
Zahid Warley

Free Thinking

Hay Festival: Inheritance - Steve Jones, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

In an event recorded at the 2016 Hay festival, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter to discuss the subject of inheritance. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Marlon James
Interviewed Guest:
Steve Jones
Presenter:
Rana Mitter

Duration: 1 hour, 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

Available for 4 months

Adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel. A woman looks back on her son's childhood after he commits an act that damages their community and relationship forever. Show more

Contributors

Eva Khatchadourian:
Tilda Swinton
Franklin:
John C Reilly
Kevin as a Teenager:
Ezra Miller
Director:
Lynne Ramsay
Kevin, aged 6-8:
Jasper Newell
Kevin as a Toddler:
Rocky Duer
Smash Lady:
Leslie Lyles
Producer:
Jennifer Fox
Producer:
Luc Roeg

Genres

Formats

Start the Week

Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Cultural discussion programme. Kirsty Wark with author Lionel Shriver, economist Linda Yueh, sociologist Bev Skeggs and poet Sean O'Brien. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Wark
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Linda Yueh
Interviewed Guest:
Bev Skeggs
Interviewed Guest:
Sean O'Brien
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Open Book

Lionel Shriver

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Lionel Shriver talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new book The Standing Chandelier. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewer:
Ted Hodgkinson
Interviewed Guest:
Patjim Statovici
Interviewed Guest:
Ulla-Lena Lundberg
Interviewed Guest:
Jussi Valtonen
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Hodgson
Correspondent:
Jamie Quatro

BBC National Short Story Award

BBC National Short Story Award 2014

Episode 5: Kilifi Creek

Duration: 30 minutes

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

By Lionel Shriver. A naive, freeloading young woman makes her first trip abroad and finds herself in peril. Nancy Crane reads 2014's prize-winning tale. Show more

Short Works

Series 1

The Astonishing Good Fortune of Marigold Castor by Lionel Shriver

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Available for years

Two fame-hungry young film-makers try make it in London. Indira Varma reads Lionel Shriver's short story. Show more

Contributors

Genres

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

Interstellar, Nick Hornby, John Harle, Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson. Lionel Shriver reviews Interstellar, Nick Hornby talks about his new novel Funny Girl, John Harle on Adolphe Sax's sax, and Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Nick Hornby
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
John Harle
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Carlson

Front Row

Fourth Plinth art; Stephen King reviewed; Alfred and Adrian Brendel; BBC Short Story Award

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

The artworks competing to occupy the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, the verdict on Stephen King's The Shining sequel, Alfred and Adrian Brendel, and the BBC Short Story Award. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:
Marcus Coates
Interviewed Guest:
Liliane Lijn
Interviewed Guest:
Ekow Eshun
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Alfred Brendel
Interviewed Guest:
Adrian Brendel
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Front Row

People of the Year 2014 - Part 1

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

John Wilson with guests including Carey Mulligan, John Cleese, Ed Sheeran, Gillian Anderson, Hilary Matel and Adrian Noble. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Carey Mulligan
Interviewed Guest:
Gillian Anderson
Interviewed Guest:
Ed Sheeran
Interviewed Guest:
Paolo Nutini
Interviewed Guest:
Hilary Mantel
Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewed Guest:
Kristin Scott Thomas
Interviewed Guest:
Helen McCrory
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Piper
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Cummins
Interviewed Guest:
Marina Abramovic
Interviewed Guest:
John Cleese
Interviewed Guest:
Adrian Noble