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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Comedian Sara Pascoe chooses the author of ‘Mrs Dalloway’, Virginia Woolf. With Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more
Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris join Philip Dodd and audience at Sage Gateshead to discuss time and place in modern Britain. Show more
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45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Matthew Sweet presents. With Alex Clark on 2015's Man Booker Prize, Peter Davidson and Alex Harris on their histories of weather and twilight, and Michael Rosen on the Kibbo Kift. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Nick Cave on his new book written partly on sick bags during a US tour, and Peter Ackroyd on his Hitchcock biography, plus Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in Sweeney Todd. Show more
Uncovering the stories behind the creation of six classic British books. Alexandra Harris shows how Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway re-imagined what a novel might be. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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With Anne McElvoy. Including portraits of Virginia Woolf at the National Portrait Gallery, Richard Flanagan's new novel, the security services in fiction and medical history. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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With Anne McElvoy. For Radio 3's Britten 100 season, Frances Spalding and Alexandra Harris discuss Myfanwy Piper's libretto writing. Plus the Young Vic's Theatre Uncut season. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Anne McElvoy explores the cultural environment in Paris, Berlin, London, St Petersburg and Vienna before World War I with AS Byatt, Alexandra Harris, Neil Brand and Philip Blom. Show more
