Booksplus - Full Program Podcast
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 208:32:43
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Synopsis
BooksPlus is the one-stop destination for bibliophiles, a digest of the week’s best interviews about books and writing across RN.
Episodes
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On T C Boyle's Outside Looking In, Don Winslow's The Border and Simon Cleary's The War Artist
26/04/2019 Duration: 54minCrime writer Andy Muir and cultural historian Catie Gilchrist join Kate Evans and Mark Sutton as they discuss T C Boyle's Outside Looking In, Don Winslow's The Border and Simon Cleary's The War Artist
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On Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and Joanne Harris's The Strawberry Thief, and the bookshelves of Caro Llewellyn and Dervla McTiernan
19/04/2019 Duration: 54minConsciousness and artificial intelligence in Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me, a life defined by books and reading with Caro Llewellyn, writing Irish police procedurals in Perth with Dervla McTiernan, and a longtime fan of Joanne Harris reviews her latest novel.
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On Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future, Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, the Stella Prize and the reading habits of Jenny Brockie and Sam Twyford-Moore
12/04/2019 Duration: 53minJournalist and television presenter Jenny Brockie, and writer Sam Twyford-Moore, join Kate and Cassie to review Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future and Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, and Louise Swinn from the Stella Prize for writing by Australian women comes along to discuss this year's selection
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On Max Porter's Lanny, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Dave Eggers' The Parade and Katherine Kovacic's Bookshelf
05/04/2019 Duration: 54minNovelists Jamie Marina Lau and Belinda Castles join Kate and Cassie as they talk about Max Porter's Lanny, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel and Dave Eggers' The Parade. And crime writer Katherine Kovacic reveals the Bookshelf that Made Her.
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Novels by Andrea Goldsmith, Sarah Moss, Niviaq Korneliussen, Felicity McLean and José Luís Peixoto
29/03/2019 Duration: 54minCritic Kate Jinx and ABC RN producer of audio fiction Sophie Townsend join Cassie and Kate as they discuss Andrea Goldsmith's Invented Lives, Sarah Moss's Ghost Wall, Niviaq Korneliussen's Crimson and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone, while Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto reveals the books that have influenced him.
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On Leah Kaminsky's The Hollow Bones, Ben Marcus's Notes from the Fog, Julie Keys, The Artist’s Portrait, Katherine Kovacic, Painting in the Shadows and Andrea Goldsmith on books
22/03/2019 Duration: 54minWriters Ceridwen Dovey and Kelly Gardiner join Kate and Cassie to talk new books, and Andrea Goldsmith reveals how reading has allowed her to be 'privately wild'.
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On Mark Brandi's The Rip, Dervla McTiernan's The Scholar, Leïla Slimani's Adèle and Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds
15/03/2019 Duration: 54minCrime fiction specialist Sue Turnbull and reviewer Nicole Abadee join Kate and Cassie as they ponder, among other things, whether liking a character (or not) impacts a reader's sense of literary merit.
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On Carrie Tiffany's Exploded View, Peggy Frew's Islands, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six and the bookshelf that made Karen Viggers
08/03/2019 Duration: 54minNovelist and translator Tiffany Tsao and music industry specialist Leanne de Souza join Cassie and Kate in a show that features four novels by women, for International Women's Day.
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On Melissa Harrison's All Among the Barley, Nana Kwama Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black and Emiliano Monge's Among the Lost
01/03/2019 Duration: 54minWriter and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke and bookseller and academic Elias Greig join Cassie and Kate to talk reading, throwing books through windows and (specifically) Melissa Harrison's All Among the Barley, Nana Kwama Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black and Emiliano Monge's Among the Lost
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On Sigrid Nunez's The Friend, Will Dean’s Red Snow and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers
22/02/2019 Duration: 54minWriters Chris Hammer (Scrublands) and John Connell (The Cow Book) join Cassie and Kate to talk new fiction
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Reading Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction and Delphine de Vigan's Loyalties plus the bookshelves of Lynda La Plante and Ferenc Barnás
15/02/2019 Duration: 54minNovelist Mirandi Riwoe and sound engineer Tim Jenkins join Kate Evans to talk new fiction from Latin American writer Roberto Bolaño and French novelist Delphine de Vigan, while English crime writer Lynda La Plante and Hungarian novelist Ferenc Barnás reveal the books that have influenced them.
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On Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Debra Adelaide's Zebra, Tessa Hadley's Late in the Day and what's on David Stratton's bookshelf
08/02/2019 Duration: 54minNovelist Trent Jamieson and writer Patrick Carey join Cassie and Kate to discuss new fiction from Marlon James, Debra Adelaide and Tessa Hadley, while film critic David Stratton reveals the bookshelf that has shaped him
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On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
01/02/2019 Duration: 54minJacqueline Kent, Robert Lukins and Michael Cathcart join Cassie and Kate to examine new fiction from Caoilinn Hughes, Steven Carroll, John Lanchester and Graeme Simsion
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On Summer reading and Ben Okri's The Freedom Artist, Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man
25/01/2019 Duration: 53minKate and Cassie are back with bookseller Anna Lowe, arts journalist Melanie Kembrey and documentary maker Johan Gabrielsson to reveal their best novels of Summer and to discuss Nigerian novels Ben Okri's The Freedom Artist and Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities and Danish screenwriter Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man
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What Morris Gleitzman read on the factory floor, being amanuensis to Will Self, talking to Sofie Laguna, and a bit of Finnish Weird
18/01/2019 Duration: 54minNew interviews with writer Matthew de Abaitua (Self and I) and Sofie Laguna (The Choke), and revisiting the Finnish Weird of Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron and the formative bookshelf of Morris Gleitzman
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Are you a rereader? And other thoughts for a Summer Bookshelf
11/01/2019 Duration: 54minWhy Cassie rereads Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, while Kate returns to 20th C novelists like Michael Ondaatje and A S Byatt. Also, talking Berlin noir and the works of Philip Kerr, reading English literature in Bangladesh, and the appeal of country house mysteries with Stuart Turton
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Do you have book-shaped New Year's reading resolutions?
04/01/2019 Duration: 54minNew revelations of the bookshelves that made them, from novelists Patrick de Witt and Lisa Ireland; while Cassie talks to Christos Tsiolkas about reading Patrick White, and Mireille Juchau and Susan Johnson enjoy Rachel Cusk's Kudos.
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If you dog-ear your books, you're part of a long tradition
28/12/2018 Duration: 54minOn this Summer Edition of the Bookshelf, Kate hears about the long history of dog-earing books and discovers it wasn't an abhorred practice until the nineteenth century, and Cassie and Kate revisit Irvine Welsh's Dead Men's Trousers and Audrey Schulman's Theory of Bastards with Stuart Coupe, Margo Lanagan and Felicity Castagna
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Summer reading with Tayari Jones' An American Marriage, Peter Cochrane's The Making of Martin Sparrow and talking to Tara Westover about her memoir Educated
21/12/2018 Duration: 54minNew material as well as some of the best books of the year, on The Bookshelf's Summer series. Tara Westover reflects on the books that shaped her, in an American family almost entirely cut off from the mainstream, while Kate and Cassie also talk fiction from Tayari Jones and historian Peter Cochrane
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Podcast extra edition: with Viv Albertine, Jessie Burton and Jorge Carrion
19/12/2018 Duration: 56minKate Evans talks books and writing with Viv Albertine - former punk guitarist from The Slits turned memoirist, as well as Jessie Burton whose latest book retells a fairy tale, and Spanish writer Jorge Carrion who has written a history of bookshops.