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Front Row

BSO Resound at the Proms, Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, Creativity and the brain, Melissa Harrison

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

James Rose, founder of the BSO's Resound, on their Proms debut, the Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, Paul Howard Jones on the brain, and Melissa Harrison on her new novel. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Howard-Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison

Open Book

Mexican Literature and the London Book Fair

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

News from the world of books. Mexican writers Valeria Luiselli and Jorge Volpi talk about their country's literary heritage and how new voices are re-inventing magical realism. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Valeria Luiselli
Interviewed Guest:
Jorge Volpi
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Richards
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison

Open Book

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on Waking Lions

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 Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Her new book, Waking Lions, is a morality tale about a doctor who kills a man in a hit-and-run accident. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison
Interviewed Guest:
Amy Liptrot
Interviewed Guest:
Michiel Heynes
Interviewed Guest:
Alison MacLeod

Saturday Review

Glenda Jackson as King Lear, The Innocents, Linda Grant, Elton John's photographs in Radical Eye, Close to the Enemy

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Glenda Jackson plays King Lear, French/Polish film The Innocents, Linda Grant's The Dark Circle, Elton John's photographs at Tate Modern, Poliakoff's Close to the Enemy on BBC TV. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Rosie Boycott
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison
Interviewed Guest:
Ryan Gilbey
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Griff Rhys Jones in The Miser, Personal Shopper, George Saunders, Michelangelo and Sebastiano, Carnage

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Including Griff Rhys Jones in The Miser, Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper, George Saunders's novel Lincoln in the Bardo, and Michelangelo and Sebastiano at The National Gallery. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Rosie Boycott
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

The Death of Stalin, Philip Pullman, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Albion, Gunpowder

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Armandao Iannucci's the Death of Stalin, Philip Pullman's new trilogy: Part 1, La Belle Sauvage, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Tate Modern, Albion by Mike Bartlett, Gunpowder on BBC1. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Preston
Interviewed Guest:
Amanda Craig
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Open Book

Richard Powers and Nature Writing

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Alex Clark talks to Richard Powers about his new novel, The Overstory. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Powers
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison
Interviewed Guest:
Jessica J Lee
Interviewed Guest:
Liam Heneghan

Countryfile

Ronald Blythe’s Suffolk

Duration: 54 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Yorks & LincsLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Available for 7 months

John Craven and Margherita Taylor are in Charsfield to celebrate one of the UK's most respected rural writers, Ronald Blythe, whose works were inspired by the Suffolk countryside. Show more