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Start the Week

Live from the Hay Festival

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Cultural discussion programme. Tom Sutcliffe at the Hay Festival with Colm Toibin, Sebastian Barry, Meg Rosoff and Jan Kizilhan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Colm Toibin
Interviewed Guest:
Sebastian Barry
Interviewed Guest:
Meg Rosoff
Interviewed Guest:
Jan Kizilhan
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

Ricky Wilson; Muppets Most Wanted; Sebastian Barry; Cush Jumbo

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Ricky Wilson on his new album and The Voice; the new Muppets movie reviewed; Sebastian Barry on his latest novel set in 20th-century Ireland; Cush Jumbo on playing Mark Antony. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Ricky Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Viv Groskop
Interviewed Guest:
Sebastian Barry
Interviewed Guest:
Cush Jumbo

Free Thinking

Hay Festival 2017: Writing history with Sebastian Barry, Jake Arnott, Madeleine Thien

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Sarah Dillon chairs a discussion from 2017's Hay Festival in which three authors of historical novels explore the way research and family history have informed their fiction. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Dillon
Interviewed Guest:
Sebastian Barry
Interviewed Guest:
Jake Arnott
Interviewed Guest:
Madeleine Thien
Producer:
Zahid Warley