大象传媒

"Selling is to business what boxing is to sport." The American writer talks about his novel The Job, which follows a salesman who finds himself suddenly unemployed.

Also on the programme: the lexicographer Tony Thorne talks about a new batch of English dictionaries; the languages struggling to survive, including Catalan and Gallic; the writer Jackie Kay talk about her novel Trumpet and the results of the Meridian Short Short Story competition.

Presented by Harriett Gilbert.