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A Good Read

Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Harriett Gilbert, Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Interviewed Guest:
Sabrina Mahfouz

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

As she publishes her eighteenth novel, Joanna Trollope talks to Mark Lawson about creativity, divorce and the inescapable drama of domestic life. Show more

Reader, I Married Him

Happily Ever After

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Daisy Goodwin presents a series about the romantic novel. This edition asks why this most derided of literary genres remains so enduringly popular. Show more

Saturday Live

Greg Wise

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at the world. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles
Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Presenter:
Anita Anand
Interviewed Guest:
Greg Wise
Interviewed Guest:
Jess French
Interviewed Guest:
Jess Robinson
Interviewed Guest:
Spencer Conway
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Producer:
Maire Devine
Producer:
Emma Wallace

Open Book

12/02/2017

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Joanna Trollope talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel City of Friends, which explores working life through the lens of four highly successful career women. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope

Open Book

15/06/2014

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning Spanish writer Javier Cercas about his new novel Outlaws, and discusses Virginia Woolf in fiction with Maggie Gee and Alison MacLeod. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Javier Cercas
Interviewed Guest:
Maggie Gee
Interviewed Guest:
Alison MacLeod
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Interviewed Guest:
Sergio Rodriguez
Producer:
Sarah Johnson

Front Row

BBC National Short Story Award

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Front Row announces the winners of the 2017 BBC National Short Story and Young Writers' Award live from the Radio Theatre. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Interviewed Guest:
Eimear McBride
Interviewed Guest:
Jon McGregor
Interviewed Guest:
Sunjeev Sahota
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Levine
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Interviewed Guest:
Holly Bourne
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Front Row

Jack Dee, Joanna Trollope reveals the BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Jack Dee talks to John Wilson about his new sitcom Bad Move. Plus Joanna Trollope announces the shortlist for this year's National Short Story Award. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Jack Dee
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Interviewed Guest:
Liza Tuttle
Presenter:
John Wilson

The Secret Life of Books

Series 2

Episode 5: Cider with Rosie

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Author Joanna Trollope traces the roots of her favourite book Cider with Rosie to uncover how Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Daisy Goodwin presents a series about the romantic novel. This edition looks at the heroes of the nineteenth century and finds that they remain firm favourites for most women. Show more

Woman's Hour

Erica Jong, Joanna Trollope

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Erica Jong and Fear of Dying, Joanna Trollope and The Song of Achilles, Vera Baird and the Court Observer's Panel and Johanna Basford on colouring for adults. Jane Garvey presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Erica Jong
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Interviewed Guest:
Vera Baird
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Scott
Interviewed Guest:
Johanna Basford

Woman's Hour

Joanna Trollope; Natalie Coleman

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Joanna Trollope on rewriting Austen; The Alzheimer Conundrum; MasterChef winner Natalie Coleman cooks the perfect scallops; Rugby League World Cup CEO Sally Bolton. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Lock
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Cook
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Coleman
Interviewed Guest:
Sally Bolton
Interviewed Guest:
Gaiutra Bahadur
Producer:
Rebecca Myatt

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Erica Jong, Joanna Trollope, Leaving care

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Presented by Jane Garvey. Erica Jong and Joanna Trollope compare experiences, leaving the care system, Misogyny Monday, and Joan Collins pays tribute to her sister Jackie. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Erica Jong
Interviewed Guest:
Claire Harman
Interviewed Guest:
Jolien Janzing
Interviewed Guest:
Dame Joan Collins
Interviewed Guest:
Julia Hardy
Interviewed Guest:
Priscilla Presley
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Interviewed Guest:
Abigail Washburn