Writing
Helen Lewis: Great Wives. Series 1, Thanks for Typing. Audio, 14 minutes
Helen Lewis meets the life partners of history's most famous geniuses.
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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray. John Amaechi. Audio, 51 minutes
Former NBA player and psychologist on his mum, white privilege and 'meaningful success'.
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Open Book. Leïla Slimani, Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work 20 years on with Kate Mosse and Laura Dockrill, Richard Beard. Audio, 28 minutes
Chris Power speaks to Leïla Slimani about her new book, The Country of Others.
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Open Book. Jean Hanff Korelitz, Georgette Heyer, Marilynne Robinson. Audio, 28 minutes
Chris Power talks to Jean Hanff Korelitz about her new book The Plot
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The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed. JK Rowling. Audio, 62 minutes
Simon Armitage talks to JK Rowling in his potting shed about writing & life after Harry.
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Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake. Bella Mackie. Audio, 39 minutes
Bella talks about the challenge of creating a likeable baddie for her first novel.
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Open Book. Miranda Cowley Heller and Summer reading round up. Audio, 28 minutes
Chris Power speaks to Miranda Cowley Heller about her debut The Paper Palace.
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The Essay. Caribbean Voices, Kei Miller on Louise Bennett. Audio, 14 minutes
A moving recollection of 'Miss Lou', maternal love and Jamaican dialect
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Profile. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Audio, 14 minutes
The award-winning author who has found herself at the heart of a social media firestorm
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Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake. Karin Slaughter. Audio, 45 minutes
The crime thriller writer on her new novel False Witness.
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Ramblings. Screenwriter Kay Mellor at Harewood in Leeds. Audio, 24 minutes
Screenwriter Kay Mellor takes Clare for a ramble at Harewood House in Leeds.
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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray. Irvine Welsh. Audio, 54 minutes
The writer on drug abuse, Trainspotting and standing up his idol David Bowie.
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The Essay. New Generation Thinkers, The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far. Audio, 14 minutes
Xine Yao suggests that a poker Chinese face can be a good way of fighting back
- Attribution´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
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Open Book. Chris Power; Online Dating in Fiction; Postcard from Delhi. Audio, 28 minutes
Chris Power talks about A Lonely Man
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HARDtalk. Stephen King: Are you afraid of the dark? Audio, 23 minutes
Stephen Sackur speaks to the bestselling master of horror writing
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The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There. Audio, 13 minutes
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in the novel by Inez Holden
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The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf, There's No Story There. Audio, 14 minutes
Lisa Mullen looks at the depiction of war-time factory workers in a novel by Inez Holden.
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- Available for over a year
The Essay. Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer. Audio, 14 minutes
4/5 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper
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The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf, Closer. Audio, 14 minutes
Diarmuid Hester looks at the George Miles Cycle from punk radical Dennis Cooper.
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The Essay. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf, Sindhubala. Audio, 14 minutes
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi.
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The Essay. Shakespeare's Sisters, Fanny Dickens. Audio, 14 minutes
The brilliant women whose success was often eclipsed by their more famous brothers.
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