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Storytelling at the Edinburgh Festivals

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Andrew Marr at the Edinburgh Festivals with award-winning authors Pat Barker, Sjon and James Robertson, and singer-songwriter Karine Polwart. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
Pat Barker
Interviewed Guest:
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Interviewed Guest:
James Robertson
Interviewed Guest:
Karine Polwart
Performer:
Karine Polwart
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Open Book

Age gap relationships; Dorthe Nors

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 Karl Geary and Gwendoline Riley, who have both written about a love affair across the generations in their new books, and to Danish writer Dorte Nors. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Karl Geary
Interviewed Guest:
Gwendoline Riley
Interviewed Guest:
Dorthe Nors
Interviewed Guest:
Nadiya Hussain
Interviewed Guest:
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Open Book

Historical Fiction

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 Icelandic novelist Sjon, whose new book, Moonstone: The Boy That Never Was, won the Literary Prize and the Booksellers' Novel of the Year in Iceland. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
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Open Book

Omar El Akkad

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Omar El Akkad talks to Mariella Frostrup about his novel American War, in which the country has been ravaged by climate change, and a second civil war breaks out over fossil fuels. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Omar El Akkad
Interviewed Guest:
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Interviewed Guest:
Ted Hodgkinson
Interviewed Guest:
Elizabeth Kostova

Free Thinking

Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Richard McGregor, Hans Van de Ven and presenter Rana Mitter discuss relations between Japan, US and China. Plus Ronan Bennett on dramatising the Gunpowder Plot for TV. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Pepinster
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Stanley
Interviewed Guest:
Richard McGregor
Interviewed Guest:
Hans van de Ven
Interviewed Guest:
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Producer:
Fiona McLean