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Open Book

Edinburgh Special: Raja Alem and Richard T Kelly

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

A special edition of Open Book recorded at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Mariella Frostrup and her guests discuss the place where politics meet fiction. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Raja Alem
Interviewed Guest:
Richard T Kelly
Interviewed Guest:
Richard T Kelly
Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits

Open Book

Great American Novel

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup explores American literature with writers Benjamin Markovits and Stephanie Merrit. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Philip Lewis

Open Book

Reader's Guide to Milan Kundera

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 Benjamin Markovits about his novel You Don't Have to Live Like This, set in Detroit. Plus discussion on Milan Kundera, Mario Vargas Llosa and Harper Lee. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits
Interviewed Guest:
Elena Lappin
Interviewed Guest:
Alan Samson
Interviewed Guest:
Diane Roberts

Front Row

Greta Gerwig, Opportunities for disabled actors, 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

Greta Gerwig on her directorial debut film Lady Bird and we consider opportunities for disabled actors. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Greta Gerwig
Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits
Interviewed Guest:
Timothy Prager
Interviewed Guest:
Mik Scarlet
Interviewed Guest:
Genevieve Barr

Free Thinking

Sound Frontiers: Fiction in 1946

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

In front of an audience at Southbank Centre in London, Benjamin Markovits, Lara Feigel and Kevin Jackson join Matthew Sweet to explore some of the key books published in 1946. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits
Interviewed Guest:
Lara Feigel
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Producer:
Zahid Warley

Free Thinking

Philosophical tennis, Hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

The philosophy of tennis, Cardiff's hidden beach, and the life and times of Eleanor Marx are explored by New Generation Thinker Des Fitzgerald. Matthew Sweet presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits
Interviewed Guest:
William Skidelsky
Interviewed Guest:
Des Fitzgerald
Interviewed Guest:
Rachel Holmes

Front Row

Eddie Izzard, Wilko Johnson and novelist Benjamin Markovits

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Eddie Izzard reveals why he is reading all of Dickens' novels aloud and Wilko Johnson talks about his first album since his recovery from cancer. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Eddie Izzard
Interviewed Guest:
Wilko Johnson
Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits
Producer:
Julian May