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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Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets
06/11/2020 Duration: 01h57sCeridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth, Don Delillo’s The Silence and Martin Amis’ Inside Story: A novel with critics Tegan Bennett Daylight and Geordie Williamson
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The Book Club No 7: On the Coast and in the Water
30/10/2020 Duration: 55minMalcolm Knox’s Bluebird and Tim Winton’s Breath under scrutiny with surfwriter Stuart Nettle and documentary maker Johan Gabrielsson
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Tragedies, Sagas and Infinite Splendours
23/10/2020 Duration: 54minOn Sofie Laguna’s Infinite Splendours, Nardi Simpson’s Song of the Crocodile and Nicolas Mathieu’s And Their Children After Them with writers Sam Coley and Mykaela Saunders
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Vanishing body parts and toxic relationships
16/10/2020 Duration: 58minRichard Flanagan's The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar, and Cassie meets bestselling author Ken Follett.
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Podcast Extra: Andrew O'Hagan
13/10/2020 Duration: 27minWriter Andrew O’Hagan on autobiographical fiction, an old copy of Dickens’ David Copperfield, why J M Barrie’s Peter Pan is so important, and other books that have shaped him and his latest novel, Mayflies
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A mythic quest and star-crossed love
09/10/2020 Duration: 54minTrent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies, Marilynne Robinson's Jack, and Craig Silvey for Me, Myshelf and I.
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Podcast Extra: Chris Riddell sharpens his pencil
06/10/2020 Duration: 39minChris Riddell is an illustrator, cartoonist and novelist. Here, he discusses collaboration, reading, influences, poetry and why he draws political cartoons instead of shouting at the radio
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The Book Club No 6: Italy in translation
02/10/2020 Duration: 54minElena Ferrante's new novel The Lying Life of Adults, and the 1958 classic, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard
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Podcast Extra: Sue Miller
29/09/2020 Duration: 24minAmerican novelist Sue Miller discusses both her latest novel, Monogamy, and the bookshelf that shaped her
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Standing on the bridge, wrong side of the rail
25/09/2020 Duration: 53minOn Craig Silvey’s Honeybee, Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom and Sue Miller’s Monogamy
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Podcast Extra: Maria Lewis
22/09/2020 Duration: 29minWerewolves running nightclubs in Berlin, Supernatural Sydney, witches with attitude and a whole slew of terrific fantasy recommendations from writer Maria Lewis
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Slipping between worlds and cities, in history, fiction and fantasy
18/09/2020 Duration: 57minOn Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, Ken Follett’s The Evening and the Morning and Edmund White’s A Saint from Texas
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Podcast Extra: Meg Rosoff
15/09/2020 Duration: 26minIt was the Summer where everything changed: Meg Rosoff, her new novel and the bookshelf that made her
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Podcast Extra: Christopher Paolini
14/09/2020 Duration: 23minFrom dragons and mythical origin stories to adventures in the stars, fantasy and SF writer Christopher Paolini has plenty to say about how his genre works
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Podcast Extra: Sarah Moss & Ian McGuire
13/09/2020 Duration: 35minTwo writers on this podcast extra edition of the Bookshelf, both of whom write very broadly in a ‘Northern’ English tradition. Sarah Moss and Ian McGuire speak (separately) with Kate Evans
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Imagined taxonomies of life, love, death and memory
11/09/2020 Duration: 54minOn Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies, Eley Williams’ The Liar’s Dictionary, Pip Williams’ The Dictionary of Lost Words and Rose Tremain’s Islands of Mercy
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Podcast Extra: Raymond E Feist
08/09/2020 Duration: 21minRaymond E Feist on writing, and reading, fantasy fiction. World building, foundational texts, and how the genre has changed
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Podcast Extra: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
07/09/2020 Duration: 22minStage and screen actor Dugald Bruce Lockhart has now turned to fiction. Here, he reveals the books – and plays – that made him
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Book Club No 5: Speculative Fiction and N K Jemisin’s The City we Became
04/09/2020 Duration: 53minThe city of New York is coming alive, but its enemies are against it. Urban fantasy, overturning racist narratives, and some very large genre tentacles
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Podcast Extra: Kester Grant
01/09/2020 Duration: 22minMauritian writer Kester Grant on her fantasy novel The Court of Miracles (inspired by Victor Hugo) and the books that have shaped her