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Open Book

Colombian literary superstar Juan Gabriel Vasquez, new stories by Radclyffe Hall, creative non-fiction from African writers

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 celebrated Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez. His new novel, Reputations, tells the story of a famed political cartoonist forced to face his past. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Juan Vasquez

Free Thinking

Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd explores Latin America as seen by historian Eric Hobsbawm, and discusses the subject with authors Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro. Plus Brazil's plutocrats. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Juan Vasquez
Interviewed Guest:
Claudia Pineiro
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Cuadros
Interviewed Guest:
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Producer:
Ruth Watts

Free Thinking

Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

The lure of conspiracy theories, writing history as fiction and the public role of writer are debated at Hay by Elif Shafak, Javier Cercas, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Shahidha Bari. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Shahidha Bari
Interviewed Guest:
Juan Vasquez
Interviewed Guest:
Javier Cercas
Interviewed Guest:
Elif Shafak
Producer:
Fiona McLean