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Posts (12)
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Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much?
Peter McHugh
Producer
Producer Peter McHugh joins crime writer Mark Billingham as he investigates why Edgar Wallace 'King of Thrillers' is fast becoming a literary unknown.
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In Our Time: Mrs Dalloway
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
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Publishing Lives - A New Series
Robert McCrum
Writer, Editor
Robert McCrum previews the new series of Publishing Lives - focusing on the role of women in books. Highlighting some of the most influential women of the 20th century, who have presided over the golden age of reading.
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Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out: Mark Billingham's Rule Book of Crime
Peter McHugh
Producer
Producer Peter McHugh discusses 'Mark Billingham's Rule Book of Crime', and what it was that started Mark's crime obsession.
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The Bookclub author interview archive - literary treasure
Jim Naughtie
Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on BBC Radio 4
Looking through the list of Bookclub recordings brings back some extraordinary memories... of Joseph Heller talking about Catch 22, Wendy Cope reading poetry in a basement studio in Broadcasting House while the story from New York was coming in on September 11, 2001, Muriel Spark reading from Th...
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Sue MacGregor steps down from A Good Read
Clare McGinn
Head of Radio & Music Production, Bristol
A few weeks ago, at the Bristol Old Vic, Sue MacGregor announced to the audience that this was to be her final programme as the regular presenter of A Good Read. Our guest reviewers were the acclaimed actor Timothy West, who has a strong connection with the theatre and with Bristol, and the best...
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2010
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
It's been a strange week, locked in a studio recording a novel about secrets and conspiracy in Stalinist Russia and then dashing 8 floors up, to conspiratorially huddle over the short list of this year's BBC National Short Story Award intent on ensuring total secrecy until the announcement on Th...
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The Coral Thief
Elizabeth Allard
It's in the can! All ten episodes of Rebecca Stott's compelling new novel The Coral Thief, are recorded and edited and ready for broadcast. When I was searching earlier in the autumn for a Book at Bedtime to fill January's wintry evenings, my editor handed me The Coral Thief to see if it might ...
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Words and pictures from the National Short Story Awards
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
The nice people at Book Trust have sent us some pictures from the awards ceremony Monday night - and there are more here on Flickr. Shortlisted Lionel Shriver's got an excellent piece about short stories in The Independent. She writes: Exchange Rates, short-listed last month for the National S...
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Shrt stry awrd - anncmnt Mnday
Di Speirs
Editor, Readings
Editor's note. Update: of course, the award has now been announced. Kate Clanchy is the winner. The Telegraph covered the announcement, as did The Guardian. Congratulations to Kate Clanchy! - SB Not long now until our final meeting in a discreet London venue, to pick this year's winner. Which i...
